Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures

Edited by Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa

Paper, 352 pages, 6 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11261-1
$28.50 / £17.00

January, 1999
Cloth, 352 pages, 6 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11260-4
$83.50 / £49.00

1. Introduction, by Saskia E. Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood

2. Sapphic Shadows:Challenging the Silence in the Study of Sexuality, by Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa

Indigenous Histories Colonial Legacies

3. The Politics of Identities and Languages:Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India, by Giti Thadani

4. Lesbians, Men-Women, and Two-Spirits:Homosexuality and Gender in Native American Cultures

Erotic Intimacies and Cultural Identities

5. “What’s Identity Got to Do with It?” Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname, by Gloria Wekker

6. Let Them Take Ecstasy: Class and Jakarta Lesbians, by Alison J. Murray

7. Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia, by Kendall

Doing Masculinity:Butches, Female Bodies,and Transgendered Identities

8. Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire, by Evelyn Blackwood

9. Desiring Bodies or Defiant Cultures:Butch-Femme Lesbians in Jakarta and Lima, by Saskia E. Wieringa

10. Negotiating Transnational Sexual Economies: Femaleand Same-Sex Sexuality in “Tahiti and Her Islands”, by Deborah A. Elliston

Nationalism, Feminism,and Lesbian/Gay Rights Movements

11. How Homosexuality Became “Un-African”: The Case of Zimbabwe, by Margrete Aarmo

12. Women’s Sexuality and the Discourse on Asian Values:Cross-Dressing in Malaysia, by Tan beng hui

13. Sexual Preference:the Ugly Duckling of Feminist Demands:The Lesbian Movement in Mexico, by Norma Mogro

Related Subjects

• Gay and Lesbian Studies

Series

• Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

About the Author

Evelyn Blackwood is assistant professor of anthropology and women's studies at Purdue University. She is the editor of The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior. Saskia Wieringa is a senior lecturer in women's studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. She is the author of The Politicization of Gender Relations in Indonesia: Women's Organizations and the New Order, coauthor of Women, The Environment, and Sustainable Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis, and editor of several other books.

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