Gay Indians in Brazil : Untold Stories of the Colonization of Indigenous Sexualities

• Main Authors: Fernandes, Estevão Rafael (Author), Arisi, Barbara M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; America > History.; Imperialism.; Ethnology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319532257
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53225-7
• Physical Description: XI, 70 p. 1 illus. online resource.

This book unveils an ignored aspect of the Brazilian history: how the colonization of the country shaped the sexuality of its indigenous population. Based on textual research, the authors show how the government and religious institutions gradually imposed the family model considered as "normal...