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Women's sexualities and masculinities in globalizing Asia

A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women's same-sex sexualities and female masculinities in a globalizing Asia. Through richly detailed studies, contributors explore the emergence of contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships and communities throughout Asia and their location within the context of nationalist struggles, religious fundamentalism, state gender regimes, and global queer movements
eBook, English, 2007
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007
Electronic books
1 online resource (xv, 279 pages) : photographs
9780230604124, 9781403977687, 9781281363589, 9780230617483, 0230604129, 1403977682, 1281363588, 0230617484
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Globalization, Sexuality and Silences: Women's Same-Sex Experiences in a Globalizing Asia / Evelyn Blackwood & Saskia E. Wieringa
Part I: Historical Legacies
Silence, Sin and the System: Women's Same-Sex Practices in Japan / Saskia E. Wieringa
Desire and Deviance in Classical Indian Philosophy: A Study of Female Masculinity and Male Femininity in the Tamil Folk Legend / Alliyarasanimalai Kanchana Natarajan
Part II: Conditional Subjectivities
The Spring that Flowers between Women / Abha Bhaiya
Performing Gender along the Lesbian Continuum: The Politics of Sexual Identity in the Seit̥ Society / Peichen Wu
But no one has explained to me who I am now: Trans Self-perceptions in Sri Lanka / Shermal Wijewardene
Part III: Female Masculinities
Gender Subjectivity: Dees and Toms in Thailand / Megan Sinnott
Hunting down Love: Female Masculinity in Bugis South Sulawesi / Sharyn Graham Davies
Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong / Franco Lai
Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings / Evelyn Blackwood
Part IV: Silencing and Modes of Invisibility
Flames of Fire: Expressions and Denial of Female Sexuality / Abha Bhaiya
Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan / Jennifer Robertson
She has come from the world of the spirits: Life Stories of Working-class Lesbian Women in Northern India / Maya Sharma