Resumen

ROVERO¹, Gisela Kozak. Studying Sexual Diversity or Sexual Minorities?. Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2006, vol.12, n.3, pp.135-141. ISSN 20030507.

Abstract During recent years, the study of sexual diversity and sexual minorities has emerged as an academic concern which embraces both the Social Sciences and the Humanities as traditionally defined. This is partly a result of the importance of sexuality in both the public and private roles of subjects; in part it reflects the growing importance of multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches to the study of culture and society. These studies are still embryonic and are clearly influenced by feminism and by the terms of the debate in the Anglo-Saxon world. Nevertheless, they are beginning to develop in Latin America and to take into account the particular problems and perspectives of the continent. The author argues that, for political, ethical and purely pragmatic reasons, the sexual minorities should delimit their study areas within the wider range of issues covered by a preoccupation for sexual diversity and do so in order to gain voice and visibility

Palabras clave : Sexuality; Sexual Minorities; Transdisciplinarity; Latin America; Activism.