{"product_id":"brazils-sex-wars-the-aesthetics-of-queer-activism-in-sao-paulo-hardback-9781477330104","title":"Brazil's Sex Wars; The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo (Hardback) 9781477330104","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBrazil's Sex Wars\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph Jay Sosa (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477330104\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 7 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBrazil's Sex Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking ethnography focused on the aesthetic forms that gave rise to SÃo Paulo's vibrant LGBT movement, as well as the anti-gender movement that elected Jair Bolsonaro. Sosa’s aesthetic analysis of sexual politics opens up novel ways of reading protests, pride parades, political debates, and sexual rights, while remaining keenly attuned to the ways LGBT movements fetishize and fail non-white, non-cisgender minorities. This book will become mandatory reading for scholars of social movements.\u003c\/div\u003e - Carmen Alvaro Jarrín, College of the Holy Cross, author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBrazil's Sex Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive analysis of how politics becomes sensible. Joseph Jay Sosa's novel engagement with \"sex wars\" and \"sexual rights,\" grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork with SÃo Paulo LGBT+ activists, challenges US-centric readings to reveal sexual politics as embodied, affective, aesthetic structures of feeling--raced and classed choreographies between governance (liberal and illiberal) and queer practice. As authoritarian, anti-queer movements proliferate across the globe, Sosa's innovative approach to the aesthetics of sexual politics will be required reading for anyone interested in how battles over sexuality and gender shape and reshape national politics.\u003c\/div\u003e - Margot Weiss, Wesleyan University, author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in SÃo Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e For decades, LGBT+ activists across the globe have secured victories by persuasively articulating rights to sexual autonomy. Brazilian activists, some of the world’s most energetic, have kept pace. But since 2010, a backlash has set in, as defenders of “tradition” and “family” have countered LGBT+ rights discourses using a rights-based language of their own. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e To understand this shifting ground, Joseph Jay Sosa collaborated with Brazilian LGBT+ activists, who use the language of rights while knowing that rights are not what they seem. Drawing on the symbolic and affective qualities of rights, activists mobilize slogans, bodies, and media to articulate an alternative democratic sensorium. Beyond conventional notions of rights as tools for managing the obligations of states vis-À-vis citizens, activists show how rights operate aesthetically-enjoining the public to see and feel as activists do. Sosa tracks the fate of LGBT+ rights in a growing authoritarian climate that demands “human rights for the right humans.” Interpreting conflicts between advocates and opponents over LGBT+ autonomy as not just an ideological struggle but an aesthetic one, \u003ci\u003eBrazil’s Sex Wars\u003c\/i\u003e rethinks a style of politics that seems both utterly familiar and counterintuitive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: Formed by Rights \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. \u003ci\u003eHomofobia\u003c\/i\u003e, Out of the Closet: Mediating Oppression in Law, News, and Melodrama \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. \u003ci\u003eMilitÂ\u003cbr\u003encia\u003c\/i\u003e Isn’\u003cbr\u003et Cute: Aesthetics of Activist Judgment \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. \u003ci\u003eVisibilizando\u003c\/i\u003e, Making Visible: Race, Space, and Sexuality \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Queer(ing) Protest Choreographies: Utopias beyond Rights \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Making Sides\/Taking Sides: Performing Rights through Debate \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion: The Bolsonaro Archive \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591020343576,"sku":"9781477330104","price":63.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/brazils-sex-wars-the-aesthetics-of-queer-activism-in-sao-paulo-hardback-9781477330104","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}