Anthropological production on gender and sexualities in Brazil in the last decade (2008-2018)

Abstract

This article presents a literature review about gender and sexuality in Brazil in the last decade, from 2008 to 2018, specifically in the area of Anthropology. The panorama reveals a remarkable proliferation of studies, in all regions of the country, in increasingly diversified fields, from various ethnographic perspectives. In the first part, we analyzed different bibliographical accounts carried out previously to understand the continuities and discontinuities for the pre-vious periods. We also presented national and regional academic events in the area and observed a broadening of the themes and, increasingly, the participation of young researchers in these meetings, who have carried out more involved anthropological researches, which follow the guidelines and demands of feminism and LGBTQI+ movements. In the second part, we analyzed specialized journals and/or those linked to Postgraduate Anthropology Programs, and identi-fied twelve thematic axes, observing more recurrent problems, such as sexual diversity, sexualities and sex markets and others still in recession such as conjugalities, masculinities, women’s movement and political participation. Specifically, in the field of anthropology, there is still little research on black women and lesbian and bisexual women, despite the great visibility of the intersectional perspective in gender and sexuality studies in recent years. Finally, this review could not account for all production and sought to pursue the main trends in this area in the last decade trying to understand the contribution of anthropology to the broad field of gender and sexuality studies in Brazil.