| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Bearing Witness to Unseen Flesh -- The Virgin Who Lives within Her Erotic Worth -- Unseen Flesh: Gynecological Trauma, Emotional Power, and Intimate Sociomedical Violence -- Angela -- The Social Clinic: Mapping the Social and Colonial World of Gynecology -- It Doesn't Matter -- Are We Ethical Subjects? Seeing Ourselves in Shapeshifting Ethics -- Bem-Estar Negra: Lèsbicas Negras' Beautiful Experiments of Worth |
| Summary |
"Unseen Flesh explores how Black lesbians in Brazil understand, navigate, and define their well-being and worth against racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Nessette Falu analyzes the racist and heteronormative underpinnings of gynecology, and demonstrates how gynecology erases Black lesbian subjecthood through mental, emotional, and physical traumas. Drawing on ethnographic work with Black lesbian informants, Falu documents how Black lesbians resist erasure by asserting their worth and "bem-estar Negra" within and against gynecology's intimate violence"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2023) |
| Subject |
Lesbians, Black -- Medical care -- Brazil
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Gynecology -- Brazil
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Gynecology -- Psychological aspects.
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Sexual minorities, Black -- Brazil -- Social conditions
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Gender identity -- Brazil
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Lesbian Studies.
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Gender identity
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Gynecology
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Gynecology -- Psychological aspects
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Queer women
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Brazil
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022055564 |
| ISBN |
9781478027157 |
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1478027150 |
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