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Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil

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Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil - Falu, Nessette
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"Unseen Flesh explores how Black lesbians in Brazil understand, navigate, and define their well-being and worth against racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Nessette Falu analyzes the racist and heteronormative underpinnings of gynecology, and demonstrates how gynecology erases Black lesbian subjecthood through mental, emotional, and physical traumas. Drawing on ethnographic work with Black lesbian informants, Falu documents how Black lesbians resist erasure by asserting their worth and "bem-estar Negra" ...

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Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil 2023, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9781478025184

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Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil 2023, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9781478020240

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