Description
| Product ID: | 9781478025184 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Unseen Flesh |
| Subtitle: | Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil |
| Authors: | Author: Nessette Falu |
| Page Count: | 216 |
| Subjects: | LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gay & Lesbian studies, Ethnic studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Brazil |
| Description: | Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice within hostile gynecological spaces. In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Focusing on the trauma caused by interactions with gynecologists, Falu draws on in-depth ethnographic work among the Black lesbian community to reveal their profoundly negative affective experiences within Brazil’s deeply biased medical system. In the face of such entrenched, intersectional intimate violence, Falu’s informants actively pursue well-being in ways that channel their struggle for self-worth toward broader goals of social change, self care, and communal action. Demonstrating how the racist and heteronormative underpinnings of gynecology erase Black lesbian subjecthood through mental, emotional, and physical traumas, Falu explores the daily resistance and abolitionist practices of worth-making that claim and sustain Black queer identity and living. Falu rethinks the medicalization of race, sex, and gender in Brazil and elsewhere while offering a new perspective on Black queer life through well-being grounded in relationships, socioeconomic struggles, the erotic, and freedom strivings. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-29 |
