2024
DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232024292.03412023en
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The failure of postmodern biopolitics: some notes on travesti beautification technologies and practices

Julieta Vartabedian

Abstract: Based on the ethnographic work I conducted with a group of Brazilian travesti sex workers in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona, this article aims to analyze how they adopt technologies to transform and beautify their bodies that question the biomedical model of our society: their bodies are not read as “docile”, “healthy”, or “productive” since they do not “fit into”, nor pretend to fit into the dominant sexual binary. On the other hand, beauty - as a political and transformative field - is one of the main elements… Show more

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