Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil, Second Edition

by Richard G. Parker

Book Overview

Winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Originally published in the early 1990s, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions quickly became a classic ethnographic study of the social, cultural and historical construction of sexuality and sexual diversity. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews, together with the analysis of historical and literary texts, anthropologist Richard Parker mapped out the multiple...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826516750
• ISBN13: 9780826516756
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"