Abstract

CORDOVA PLAZA, Rosío. The Difficult Journey from "Home-Made" to "Enchanting": Construction of Subjectivity between Transgender Sex Workers in Xalapa, Veracruz. Secuencia [online]. 2006, n.66, pp.89-110. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i66.982.

This article will examine the cultural matrices around which a group of transgender sex-workers in Xalapa, Veracruz, organize their experience and construct their subjectivity. It will analyze the way the normative model of sexuality, by stipulating dichotomized categories linked to gender creates a social imagination based on three ideas regarding transvestitism: abnormality, perversion and dangerousness, which have a specific importance in leading subjects towards the exercise of prostitution. The author begins with the idea that transgression, far from placing subjects outside the norm, integrates them into it, thereby creating a locus in which the relevant aspects of a social order are seen more clearly.

Keywords : Transvestitism; homosexuality; violence; subjectivity; transgender sex work.