Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies. By Rafael de la Dehesa. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. x+300. $23.95.

2011 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 332-334
Author(s):  
Héctor Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Emerging Democracies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The Public Sphere

Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies. By Rafael de la Dehesa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 320p. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-401
Author(s):  
Deborah B. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The State ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Emerging Democracies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The Public Sphere

Rafael de la Dehesa has written an empirically rich and analytically nuanced book that explores the rise and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist engagements with the state in Brazil and Mexico. The two cases are ideal for comparative analysis: Movements in both countries emerged under semiauthoritarian regimes and operated as their countries transitioned to democracy, but the paths they took show striking differences, allowing de la Dehesa to argue forcefully for the importance of the local and the contingent as activists navigate the national and transnational fields in which they are embedded. As the concept of embeddedness warrants, even while pointing toward the importance of the particular and the agentic, de la Dehesa carefully shows as well how constrained, and enabled, activists were by the multiple fields in which they operated. Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil, then, successfully charts an analytical course that recognizes the powerful but nontotalizing nature of institutions, economic forces, and discourses.

Response to Deborah Gould's Review ofQueering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-402
Author(s):  
Rafael de la Dehesa
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Emerging Democracies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lgbt Activism ◽  
The Public Sphere

As I wrote in my review, Deborah Gould offers us a valuable conceptual tool kit in Moving Politics with which to explore the role of affect and emotion in social movements. In her review of my book, she invites me to address these dimensions in my own account of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) activism in Brazil and Mexico.

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