The regulative and oppressive effects of gender norms on bodies transgender workers have been mostly explored in standard binary work settings. We explore the specialized regimes by posing following two questions: how do transgendered regulate bodies? cope with these regimes? Through a case study khwajasiras, community male-to-female people Pakistan, we explain competing conflicting body ideals...

This paper presents the results of an ethnographic research investigating the cultural bases that guide the construction of corporeal events, especially those related to sex/eroticism, in the homosocial circuits of downtown Rio de Janeiro. Data were gathered by means of biographic narrative interviews, direct observations and research-interventions. The main argument presented in this paper is ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting on sexual health in 2002 to clarify definitions of healthy sexual development and concluded with a powerful statement testifying to the central and multifaceted role of sexuality in human health and well-being [World Health Organization, 2004]. According to their model, sexuality incorporates eroticism, intimacy, pleasure, reproduction, and...