Raquel Moreira (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor of Communication at Southwestern University. Her research focuses on the role of transgressive performances of femininities in the struggle against structural violence in Brazil. Moreira’s research has received the 2020 Monograph of the Year Award from NCA’s GLBTQ Communication Division and the 2017 Feminist Scholar of the Year from the Organization for Research on Women and Communication.

• List of Figures – Acknowledgements – Introducing Bitches Unleashed – Femininities, Agency, and White Feminist Failures – “I Don’t Depend on Men for Shit!”: Favela Funk as Industry and Funkeiras’ Autonomy – Femininities on Display: Transgression and the Body in Performance – Negotiated Femininities: Relationships with Men and Other Funkeiras – Anti- Blackness and Racial Consciousness among Funkeiras – “Sit Down and Observe Your Own Destruction, Macho!”: Travesti Performances in Favela Funk – Beyond Survival: Funkeiras, Embodied Politics, and the Future of Feminism – Index.

“I loved this book and could not put it down. While academic in tone, it is also conversational and interesting to read for any audience. Moreira’s book is an astute look at intersectional feminine performances in the contexts of Brazil and Funkeiras. Her interviews demonstrate the power of qualitative methodologies to uproot long-held assumptions that femininity is anything other than strength and resilience. This text offers scholars of communication studies, femininity studies, and/or women, gender, and sexuality studies a brilliant take on a specific community, with lessons of feminine empowerment for us all.”—Kathryn Hobson, Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, James Madison University

Raquel Moreira (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor of Communication at Southwestern University. Her research focuses on the role of transgressive performances of femininities in the struggle against structural violence in Brazil. Moreira’s research has received the 2020 Monograph of the Year Award from NCA’s GLBTQ Communication Division and the 2017 Feminist Scholar of the Year from the Organization for Research on Women and Communication.

• List of Figures – Acknowledgements – Introducing Bitches Unleashed – Femininities, Agency, and White Feminist Failures – “I Don’t Depend on Men for Shit!”: Favela Funk as Industry and Funkeiras’ Autonomy – Femininities on Display: Transgression and the Body in Performance – Negotiated Femininities: Relationships with Men and Other Funkeiras – Anti- Blackness and Racial Consciousness among Funkeiras – “Sit Down and Observe Your Own Destruction, Macho!”: Travesti Performances in Favela Funk – Beyond Survival: Funkeiras, Embodied Politics, and the Future of Feminism – Index.

“I loved this book and could not put it down. While academic in tone, it is also conversational and interesting to read for any audience. Moreira’s book is an astute look at intersectional feminine performances in the contexts of Brazil and Funkeiras. Her interviews demonstrate the power of qualitative methodologies to uproot long-held assumptions that femininity is anything other than strength and resilience. This text offers scholars of communication studies, femininity studies, and/or women, gender, and sexuality studies a brilliant take on a specific community, with lessons of feminine empowerment for us all.”—Kathryn Hobson, Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, James Madison University

Raquel Moreira (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor of Communication at Southwestern University. Her research focuses on the role of transgressive performances of femininities in the struggle against structural violence in Brazil. Moreira’s research has received the 2020 Monograph of the Year Award from NCA’s GLBTQ Communication Division and the 2017 Feminist Scholar of the Year from the Organization for Research on Women and Communication.

• List of Figures – Acknowledgements – Introducing Bitches Unleashed – Femininities, Agency, and White Feminist Failures – “I Don’t Depend on Men for Shit!”: Favela Funk as Industry and Funkeiras’ Autonomy – Femininities on Display: Transgression and the Body in Performance – Negotiated Femininities: Relationships with Men and Other Funkeiras – Anti- Blackness and Racial Consciousness among Funkeiras – “Sit Down and Observe Your Own Destruction, Macho!”: Travesti Performances in Favela Funk – Beyond Survival: Funkeiras, Embodied Politics, and the Future of Feminism – Index.

“I loved this book and could not put it down. While academic in tone, it is also conversational and interesting to read for any audience. Moreira’s book is an astute look at intersectional feminine performances in the contexts of Brazil and Funkeiras. Her interviews demonstrate the power of qualitative methodologies to uproot long-held assumptions that femininity is anything other than strength and resilience. This text offers scholars of communication studies, femininity studies, and/or women, gender, and sexuality studies a brilliant take on a specific community, with lessons of feminine empowerment for us all.”—Kathryn Hobson, Assistant Professor, School of Communication Studies, James Madison University