"From travestism to travestilities": A critical review of Brazilian academic production (2001-2010)

Abstract

We can observe throughout the years 2000 an increasing visibility of travestilities and transsexual experiences in the gender and sexuality studies, becoming a central thematic in a variety of Brazilian researches. Coming from the expressive academic interest in the trans universe, this critical revision of the literature presents an overview of the Brazilian scientific publication about travestilities between the years 2001 - 2010. By mapping the specialized literature, sought on four virtual data in Portuguese, this paper analyzes 92 works. The results demonstrates the different approaches to travesty experiences in terms of the politics and academic movements that involve the terminologies from "travestism" to "travestilities",the expressive number of papers centered on topics related to aids, corporal transformation and travesty prostitution, and a reduced number of works about aging, adolescence, education and others, which are also relevant for guiding public polices, such as the surveys about violence suffered by travesties.