Falling into the lesbi world : desire and difference in Indonesia /

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Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends ("femmes") in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. While likening themselves to heterosexual couples, tombois and femmes contest and blur dominant...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blackwood, Evelyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Transgender people > Indonesia > Padang.
Gender identity > Indonesia > Padang.
Sex role > Indonesia > Padang.
Lesbians > Indonesia > Padang.
Queer theory.
Transgenres > Indonésie > Padang.
Identité de genre > Indonésie > Padang.
Rôle selon le sexe > Indonésie > Padang.
Lesbiennes > Indonésie > Padang.
Théorie queer.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
Gender identity
Lesbians
Queer theory
Sex role
Transgender people
Geschlechterforschung
Lesbische Orientierung
Homosexualität
Minangkabau
Indonesia > Padang
Indonesien
Westsumatra
Padang
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Gender, sexuality, and queer desires
  • Shifting discourses of gender and desire
  • Learning to be boys and girls
  • Doing gender
  • Desire and difference
  • Ambiguities in family, community, and public spaces
  • Translocal queer connections.

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