Beyond carnival : male homosexuality in twentieth-century Brazil /
Description from the publisher: "For many foreign observers, Brazil still conjures up a collage of exotic images, ranging from the camp antics of Carmen Miranda to the bronzed girl (or boy) from Ipanema moving sensually over the white sands of Rio's beaches. Among these tropical fantasies...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Worlds of desire.
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Table of Contents:
- Pleasures in the parks of Rio de Janeiro during the Brazilian Belle Époque, 1898-1914
- Sex and nightlife, 1920-1945
- Control and cure: the medicolegal responses
- New words, new spaces, new identities, 1945-1968
- The homosexual appropriation of Rio's carnival
- "Down with repression: more love and more desire," 1969-1980.