Knitting Circle Sexualities journal August 1998

The Knitting Circle:Sexualities

Sexualities
Studies in Culture and Society

Volume 1, number 3, August, 1998
Special IssueTransgender in Latin America

Sexualities journal.

EditorKen Plummer.

Guest Editor of this Special Issue:Don Kulick, Stockholm University.

Sage Publications.

Sexualitiesarticles are abstracted in:
  • Communication Abstracts
  • Sociological Abstracts
  • Studies on Women Abstracts

Sexualitiesarticles are indexed in:

  • International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
  • International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly

Contents

  • Don Kulick,(Stockholm University, Sweden), Transgender in Latin America: Persons, Practices and Meanings, (editorial), pages 259-260.

  • Roger N. Lancaster,(George Mason University, Fairfax, USA), Transgenderism in Latin America: Some Critical Introductory Remarks on Identities and Practices, pages 261-274.

  • Heather Levi,(New York University), Lean Mean Fighting Queens: Drag in the World of Mexican Professional Wrestling, pages 275-285.

  • Annick Prieur,(University of Oslo, Norway/NOVA Research Institute, Oslo/ Centre de sociologie europĂ©enne, Paris), Bodily and Symbolic Constructions among Homosexual Men in Mexico, pages 287-298.

  • Don Kulick,(Stockholm University, Sweden), Fe/male Trouble: The Unsettling Place of Lesbians in the Self-images of BazilianTravestiProstitutes, pages 299-312.

  • Jared Braiterman,(Unaffiliated), Sexual Science: Whose Cultural Difference?, pages 313-325.

  • Charles H. Klein,(HIV Center, Columbia University, USA), From One 'Battle' to Another: The Making of aTravestiPolitical Movement in a Brazilian City, pages 327-342.

  • David A. B. Murray,(University of Adelaide, South Australia), Defiance or Defilement? Undressing Cross-Dressing in Martinique's Carnival, pages 343-354.

  • Judith Butler,(University of California, Berkeley, USA), Afterword, pages 355-359.

  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg,(Dalhousie University), The Resources of Gaiety: A Professor's Retrospective, pages 361-375.

  • Book Reviews

    • Katherine Frank,(Duke University), pages 377-378.

      Wendy Chapkis, (1997), Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labour, London: Cassell/New York: Routledge, 248 pages.

    • Jeffrey Weeks,(South Bank University, London), pages 378-381.

      Steven Epstein, (1996), Impure Science: AIDS Activism and the Politics of Knowledge, Berkeley: University of California Press, 466 pages, ISBN 0-520-20233-3.

    • Jon Binnie,(Liverpool John Moores University, Britain), pages 381-383.

      Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne Marie Bouthilette and Yolanda Retter, editors, (1997), Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance, Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 560 pages.

      See theextracts in the Geography section.

    • Anne Edwards,(The Flinders University of South Australia), pages 383-384.

      Sue Lees, (1997), Ruling Passions: Sexual Violence, Reputation and the Law, Buckingham: Open University Press, 211 pages.


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