Violence and desire in Brazilian lesbian relationships
By: Andrea Stevenson Allen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781137498519
Subjects: Social conditions; Violence against; Lesbian partner abuse; Lesbians; Women
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2011, under the title: We are phantasms : female same-sex desires, violence, and ideology in Salvador, Brazil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : "I took her blood" --; title: Introduction : "We are phantasms" : lesbian and entendida women in Brazil --; title: Historical contexts --; title: City of invisible women --; title: Phantasmal sexualities and erotic embodiment --; title: Violence, passion, and power--; title: a love story --; title: Intimate partner violence, government intervention and civil society --; title: Conclusion : At the gates of Nineveh.