THE GENDER OF BRAZILIAN TRANSGENDERED PROSTITUTES

The essay discusses how an analysis of the gendered practices of Brazi lian transgendered prostitutes (travestis) can illuminate the ways in which gender in Latin America is bound up with sexuality. The article suggests that the particular configurations of sex, gender, and sexual ity in Brazil and other Latin American societies differ importantly fr om the dominant configurations in northern Europe and North America an d generate different arrangements of gender, consisting not of men and women, but of men and not-men.