[Download] Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
▲ Annick Prieur ▲
| #1963370 in Books | 1998-01-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,.99 | File Name: 0226682579 | 310 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Mema's House: Transvestites in Mexico City|By Mark Piper|The book is concise and narrates the life of transgender in Mexico City. I do not know if this is representative of all LGBT in Mexico, though. But an interesting reading nonetheless.|11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Well worth the purchase|By S. N. KrasFrom Library Journal|The author, an intrepid Norwegian feminist sociologist researching gender construction, here presents a rich resource of interviews with and observations of a small community of transvestites and their hangers-on in one of the many impoveri
Mema's house is in the poor barrio Nezahualcoyotl, a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City where people survive with the help of family, neighbors, and friends. This house is a sanctuary for a group of young, homosexual men who meet to do what they can't do openly at home. They chat, flirt, listen to music, and smoke marijuana. Among the group are sex workers and transvestites with high heels, short skirts, heavy make-up, and voluminous hairstyles; an... [PDF.mr46] Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Rating: 4.60 (600 Votes)
You easily download any file type for your device.Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) | Annick Prieur. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
