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Marcia Ochoa: “‘La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas’: Fashion, Beauty and Consumption on the (Trans) National”
March 9, 2011 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm | Stevenson Fireside Lounge
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Professor Ochoa works at the conjuncture of the ethnography of media, modernity in Latin America, and queer/transgender studies. Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela (Duke, forthcoming) is a queer diasporic ethnography of femininity, spectacle, and nation in Venezuela.
Marcia Ochoa is Assistant Professor of Community Studies at UCSC.
Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC.