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The tight-rope between vulgarity and chastity, how middle-class white women in the South of Brazil construct 'modern' sexual identities (2013)
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Turner, J. (2014). The tight-rope between vulgarity and chastity, how middle-class white women in the South of Brazil construct 'modern' sexual identities. Journal of gender studies, 23(1), 81-92. doi:10.1080/09589236.2012.752349

This article focuses on the lived experience of whiteness in self-identified white women from the middle classes in the Southern Brazilian city of Florianópolis and their attempts to reclaim and embody sexualities in which pleasure is as much the pro... Read More about The tight-rope between vulgarity and chastity, how middle-class white women in the South of Brazil construct 'modern' sexual identities.