Marcia Ochoa: 2 books
Queen for a Day
Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela...
Trans Studies
The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline...