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Gender on the Edge : Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders /

Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that transcend the normative pose important questions about society, culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for example, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories and render them necessary, inevitable...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Alexeyeff, Kalissa (Editor ), Besnier, Niko (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gender on the edge: identities, politics, transformations / Kalissa Alexeyeff and Niko Besnier
  • Queer history and its discontents at Tahiti: the contested politics of modernity and sexual subjectivity / Deborah Elliston
  • "Hollywood" and the emergence of a faʻafafine social movement in Samoa, 1960-1980 / Reevan Dolgoy
  • Representing faʻafafine: sex, socialization, and gender identity in Samoa / Penelope Schoeffel
  • Living as and living with māhū and raerae: geopolitics, sex, and gender in the Society Islands / Makiko Kuwahara
  • Transgender in Samoa: the cultural production of gender inequality / Serge Tcherkezoff
  • Re-visioning family: māhū wahine and male-to-female transgender in contemporary Hawaiʻi / Linda L. Ikeda
  • Men trapped in women's clothing: homosexuality, cross-dressing, and masculinity in Fiji / Geir Henning Presterudstuen
  • Two sea turtles: intimacy between men in the Marshall Islands / Greg Dvorak
  • The fokisi and the fakaleiti: provocative performances in Tonga / Mary Good
  • Televisual transgender: hybridizing the mainstream in Pasifika New Zealand / Sarina Pearson
  • Same sex, different armies: sexual minority invisibility among Fijians in the Fiji military forces and British army / Teresia K. Teaiwa
  • In sickness and in health: evolving trends in gay rights advocacy in Fiji / Nicole George
  • On the edge of understanding: non-heteronormative sexuality in Papua New Guinea / Christine Stewart
  • Outwith the law in Samoa and Tonga / Sue Farran.