ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tell Abu Hureyra, Lisa Ling, Travesti
21 Mar 2016
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News clip by lisa ling trans child: a parents difficult. Male bodied transgendered but don"t identify as a women and think that any man who claims to be a women is mentally disturbed. Represent one of the most marginalized, feared and despised groups in brazilian. Travesties do not merely don female attributes. Sometimes starting at ages as young as 10 or 12 boys that identify themselves as travesties begin ingesting or injecting themselves with massive doses of female hormones in order to give their bodies rounded features. They modify their body bot because they feel themselves to be women but because they feel themselves to be feminine (cid:1) (cid:1) North america: framed in internal states and predispositions, i. e. trapped in the body of the opposite sex. Brazil: no desire to become a women; they are enhanced men, crazy to want to be a women. Created in specific social contexts and assumes specific social contexts and assumes specific social forms (cid:1)
