Female desires : same-sex relations and transgender practices across cultures / edited by Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Between men--between womenPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.Description: xvii, 348 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0231112602
  • 9780231112604
  • 0231112610
  • 9780231112611
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.76/6 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ75.5 .F43 1999
Contents:
Sapphic shadows: challenging the silence in the study of sexuality / Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa -- The politics of identities and languages: lesbian desire in ancient and modern India / Giti Thadani -- Lesbians, men-women, and two-spirits: homosexuality and gender in Native American cultures / Sabine Lang -- "What's identity got to do with it?": rethinking identity in light of the Mati work in Suriname / Gloria Wekker -- Let them take ecstasy: class and Jakarta lesbians / Alison J. Murray -- Women in Lesotho and the (western) construction of homophobia / Kendall -- Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity and erotic desire / Evelyn Blackwood -- Desiring bodies or defiant cultures: butch-femme lesbians in Jakarta and Lima / Saskia E. Wieringa -- Negotiating transnational sexual economies: female Māhū and same-sex sexuality in "Tahiti and her islands" / Deborah A. Elliston -- How homosexuality became "un-African": the case of Zimbabwe / Margrete Aarmo -- Women's sexuality and the discourse on Asian values: cross-dressing in Malaysia / Tan beng hui -- Sexual preference, the ugly duckling of feminist demands: the lesbian movement in Mexico / Norma Mogrovejo.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sapphic shadows: challenging the silence in the study of sexuality / Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa -- The politics of identities and languages: lesbian desire in ancient and modern India / Giti Thadani -- Lesbians, men-women, and two-spirits: homosexuality and gender in Native American cultures / Sabine Lang -- "What's identity got to do with it?": rethinking identity in light of the Mati work in Suriname / Gloria Wekker -- Let them take ecstasy: class and Jakarta lesbians / Alison J. Murray -- Women in Lesotho and the (western) construction of homophobia / Kendall -- Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity and erotic desire / Evelyn Blackwood -- Desiring bodies or defiant cultures: butch-femme lesbians in Jakarta and Lima / Saskia E. Wieringa -- Negotiating transnational sexual economies: female Māhū and same-sex sexuality in "Tahiti and her islands" / Deborah A. Elliston -- How homosexuality became "un-African": the case of Zimbabwe / Margrete Aarmo -- Women's sexuality and the discourse on Asian values: cross-dressing in Malaysia / Tan beng hui -- Sexual preference, the ugly duckling of feminist demands: the lesbian movement in Mexico / Norma Mogrovejo.

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