Nessette Falu
Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil
Unseen Flesh: Gynecology and Black Queer Worth-Making in Brazil
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Nessette Falu's book "Unseen Flesh" explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. It highlights the trauma caused by interactions with gynecologists and how informants actively pursue well-being in ways that channel their struggle for self-worth toward broader goals of social change, self-care, and communal action. Falu rethinks the medicalization of race, sex, and gender in Brazil and offers a new perspective on Black queer life through well-being grounded in relationships, socioeconomic struggles, the erotic, and freedom strivings.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Duke University Press
Nessette Falu delves into the intricate realm of Black lesbians' experiences in Brazil, shedding light on their unwavering pursuit of well-being and self-worth in the face of persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Through extensive ethnographic research, Falu uncovers the profound emotional toll caused by interactions with gynecologists within Brazil's deeply biased medical system. In the face of this entrenched, intersectional intimate violence, Falu's informants actively channel their struggle for self-worth into broader endeavors of social change, self-care, and collective action. By highlighting the racist and heteronormative foundations of gynecology that erase Black lesbian subjecthood through mental, emotional, and physical traumas, Falu explores the daily resistance and abolitionist practices of worth-making that assert and sustain Black queer identity and living. Falu challenges the medicalization of race, sex, and gender in Brazil and beyond, offering a fresh perspective on Black queer life through a well-being framework rooted in relationships, socioeconomic struggles, the erotic, and freedom aspirations.
Weight: 330g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478025184
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