Transgender And HIV
Subtitle: Risks, Prevention, and Care
Contributors: Walter O. Bockting (Editor); Sheila, M.D. Kirk (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780789012678
Subjects: Family & Health; Medicine: General Issues; Sociology, Social Studies; Health/Fitness; Diseases; Health & Fitness; Medical / Nursing; AIDS & HIV; Diseases - AIDS & HIV; AIDS (Disease); Transgender people; Transsexuals
First sentence: In Brazil, transvestism is a specific social and cultural construct in which both gender and sexuality are mapped out and performed in highly particular ways.