Contrary to what we find in most of the writings of historians, in this book bodies are present, as it presents the historical account of the regime of bodies, of the models of corporeality, of the techniques of body production, of the technologies of fabrication of bodies, which are present and changed between the 70s and 80s of the twentieth century, more specifically in Brazil and in the city of Fortaleza, in the state of Ceará.
The book focuses on the history of the production of transgressive bodies, transgressive bodies, and trans bodies. It deals with the public emergence of the transvestite subject, how this place of subject was historically produced and inhabited in Brazil.
