Transgender and HIV
Subtitle: Risks, Prevention, and Care
Contributors: Walter O. Bockting (Editor); Sheila, M.D. Kirk (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: May 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780789012685
Subjects: Family & Health; Medicine: General Issues; Sociology, Social Studies; Health & Fitness; Diseases; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Transsexuals; AIDS & HIV; Gender Studies; AIDS (Disease); Diseases - AIDS & HIV; Transgender people
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.