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Ethereal beauties and embodied sexualities: Women and the articulation of Brazilian whiteness

Data publikacji: 20.12.2017

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, 2017, Numer 4 (34), s. 573 - 586

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.17.038.8205

Autorzy

Jimmy Turner
Goldsmiths, University of London , University of London
, Wielka Brytania
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Tytuły

Ethereal beauties and embodied sexualities: Women and the articulation of Brazilian whiteness

Abstrakt

This article deploys an intersectional lens to refract discourses of race, gender, and sexuality and shine light on the lived experience of whiteness of self-identified white women from the middle-classes in Florianópolis in the South of Brazil. It demonstrates how a complex interplay between beauty and (a)sexuality constructs a culturally mediated expression of national belonging which casts white women outside the imagery of Brazilian womanhood, feeding an existential, although not socioeconomic, sense of loss. The alienation felt by the women in question is analytically located in whiteness, but this whiteness seems to evade culpability, preserving its dominance by pushing the women’s gender identities to the fore. Through analysis of both historical processes and contemporary lived experiences it isolates ‘beauty’ as a contextually specific ‘revealing construct’ which enables us to understand the processes through which whiteness preserves its dominance through the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and nationhood.

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Informacje

Informacje: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, 2017, Numer 4 (34), s. 573 - 586

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Tytuły:

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Ethereal beauties and embodied sexualities: Women and the articulation of Brazilian whiteness

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Ethereal beauties and embodied sexualities: Women and the articulation of Brazilian whiteness

Autorzy

Goldsmiths, University of London , University of London
Wielka Brytania

Publikacja: 20.12.2017

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY-NC-ND  ikona licencji

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