Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil; Travestí: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

Authors

• James R. Welch, Tulane University

Abstract

Book review of

Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. Richard Parker. New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi + 288 pp., plates, maps, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. $85.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). ISBN 0-415-91619-4, 0-415-91620-8.

Travestí: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Don Kulick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xi + 269 pp., notes, references, index. $50.00 (cloth), $20.00 (paper). ISBN 0-226-46099-1, 0-226-46100-9.

Recommended Citation

Welch, James R. (2004). "Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil; Travestí: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes", Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 2: Iss. 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70845/2572-3626.1067
Available at: https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol2/iss1/6