{"product_id":"brazils-sex-wars-the-aesthetics-of-queer-activism-in-sao-paulo-paperback","title":"Brazil's Sex Wars: The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Jay Sosa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\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\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Joseph Jay Sosa is an associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women's studies at Bowdoin College. \u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.01 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759463956768,"sku":"9781477330111","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/301b77c738e679e86c194518b65b7d7b_a2d98803-a989-4309-8d5c-d1c928ebbe19.webp?v=1780153504","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/brazils-sex-wars-the-aesthetics-of-queer-activism-in-sao-paulo-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}