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Pelo mundo  
In 07/10/2008

Governments’ obligation


Leading scholar in the area of sexual orientation, attorney Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, King’s College London, believes that many things have changed for better since the first legal recognition of same sex couples, in 1979.
   
Brasil  
In 25/06/2008

Causing a commotion


Read Don Kulick’s paper on travestis and the politics of scandal in Brazilian society, presented at CLAM in May 2008. His book Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes has recently been launched in Portuguese.
   
Pelo mundo  
In 18/10/2007

A matter of Principles


Dutch politician and human rights activist Boris Dittrich, Advocacy Director of the LGBT rights program of the Human Rights Watch, is responsible for promoting the Yogyakarta Principles around the world.
   
Brasil  
In 13/02/2007

Racial marginalization among MTFs


Sel Julian Hwahng, research investigator at National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. in New York City, conducted the ethnographic study Marginalization and HIV vulnerabilities among male-to-female transgendered comunities. See details.
   
 
In 30/08/2006

Cultural analysis of reproduction


Influencing the concepts of women about menstruation, menopause, pregnancy and birth was the main purpose that made north-American anthropologist Emily Martin (New York University) write The woman in the body, a book that, after two decades, has finally been translated into Portuguese.
   
Brasil  
In 18/04/2006

The social dimension of sexuality


Interview with American sociologist John Gagnon, who developed the social study of sexuality and the theory of the “sexual scripts” in the 1960’s. Gagnon recently presented, in Brazil, An interpretation of desire (CLAM/Editora Garamond), his first book to be translated into Portuguese.
   
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