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Can I read Unseen flesh : gynecology and black queer worth-making in Brazil on EtoBox?
Unseen flesh : gynecology and black queer worth-making in Brazil by Falu, Nessette, 1968- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Unseen flesh : gynecology and black queer worth-making in Brazil about?
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.
Who reads Unseen flesh : gynecology and black queer worth-making in Brazil?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Falu, Nessette, 1968-
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, 2023.
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781478027157
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, Medical