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Article: James N. Green Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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- January 1, 2003
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James N. Green Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1999. xiii + 408 pp.
The past two decades have seen a dramatic increase in scholarly studies of male homosexuality in different cultural contexts. In these discussions, Brazil has assumed an important role, both because of several excellent anthropological works written on Brazilian sexuality (e.g., Richard Parker's Bodies, Pleasures and Passions and Beneath the Equator and Don Kulick's Travesti) and because of the vibrancy and diversity of Brazilian homosexual/gay cultures. In Beyond Carnival, James Green makes an important ...