March 26

Theme: “Transnational Desires in the Global Economy”

Film Screening & Discussion Session

Liu Institute, Caseroom, 16:00 – 19:00 hrs

Introduced by: Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology

Film:

“Cinderellas, Wolves, and One Enchanted Prince” (Brazil, 2008. Dir. Joel Zito Araújo. Portuguese with English Subtitles.)

This documentary traces the struggles of young Brazilian women who enter the world of sex tourism with the hope of achieving social mobility and finding their Prince Charming. From the Northeast of Brazil to Europe, the film follows these women and reveals the complexity of sex tourism, including its imbrications within the political economy, its roots in post-colonial imaginings, and the mutual fantasy of race and sex that inhabit both these Cinderellas and the many wolves (and few Prince Charming!) they meet.

Online Reviews:

MoMA.org Click here.
Fiction that Matters.org Click here.

About

Welcome to the blog of the Liu Institute's Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America.

This research group brings together undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and community members interested in issues of gender, sexuality and feminism, with a particular geographical focus in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The group members seek to investigate and challenge essentialist gender ideologies, explore contemporary social movements organized around issues of gender and sexuality, consider customary and alternative sexualities, and interrogate notions about Latin America and/or the Caribbean as homogeneous geopolitical and sociocultural regions in critical ways.

The group hosts reading and discussion sessions, film screenings, and graduate student workshops, among other events.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia in launching and sponsoring the activities of the Research Group since 2010.