O encontro no universo lésbico de Cassandra Rios: desafios, ambiguidades e tensões nos atos performativos masculinizados em “mulheres lésbicas”

We intend to explore the idea of the meeting as ethnographical, having as locus of the fieldwork the scenes of performative acts played by the lesbian women of Cassandra Rios work. In such scenes peer up utterances about lesbian women’s bodies, and then it is observed how the proliferation of genres...

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Authors: Messeder, Suely Aldir, Pereira, Ana Gabriela Pio
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2013
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repository:Via Atlântica (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.usp.br:article/58049
Online Access:https://www.revistas.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/58049
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Masculinities
Lesbian
Bodies
Cassandra Rios
Lésbicas
Masculinidades
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Summary:We intend to explore the idea of the meeting as ethnographical, having as locus of the fieldwork the scenes of performative acts played by the lesbian women of Cassandra Rios work. In such scenes peer up utterances about lesbian women’s bodies, and then it is observed how the proliferation of genres among them breaks up with the dichotomy of man and woman, to the time when we see the tensions and ambiguities experienced by lesbian women that re-signify the masculinities in their bodies, announcing thus a border area with the “trans”/“trans man”.