An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples Beauty in Transit
This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples. This is where a gender-variant figure, the femminiello, has found a safe environment within the city’s historical poorest neighborhoods, the so-called “quartieri popolari”, which were and continue to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham
Springer International Publishing
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduuction
- Chapter 2: Genders, Inc.: Definitions, Disguises, and Transitions
- Chapter 3: The Neapolitan Femminielli: past and present of a post-modern antiquity
- Chapter 4: Trans Beauty: Mutations, Embodiments, and Collective Images
- Chapter 5: Conclusion