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

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...

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Main Authors Fernandes, Estevão Rafael (Author), Arisi, Barbara M. (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319532257
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-53225-7
Physical DescriptionXI, 70 p. 1 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Why it´s important to look at gay natives' history?
  • Chapter 2: "Between the cross and the crown": Missionaries and indigenous sexuality
  • Chapter 3: Becoming "useful citizens": the control over natives and their sexualities
  • Chapter 4: Race, Sex and Civilization: The colonization of indigenous sexualities
  • Chapter 5: When to exist is to resist.

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