Buch
Monografie
Falling into the lesbi world : desire and difference in Indonesia
Verfasst von:
Blackwood, Evelyn
Honolulu:
Univ. of Hawai'i Press
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2010
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251 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Blackwood, Evelyn |
| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0824834429 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The books 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 constructions of gender and heterosexuality. Tombois are masculine females who identify as men and desire women; their girlfriends view themselves as normal women who desire men. Through rich, in-depth, and provocative stories, author Evelyn Blackwood shows how these same-sex Indonesian couples negotiate transgressive identities and desires and how their experiences speak to the struggles and desires of sexual and gender minorities everywhere. Blackwood analyzes the complex and seemingly contradictory practices of tombois and their partners, demonstrating how they make sense of Islamic, transnational, and modern state discourses in ways that seem to align with normative gender and sexual categories while at the same time subverting them. The childhood and adolescent narratives of tombois and femmes offer bold new insights into a social process that is rarely addressed in anthropological, lesbian, gay, or transgender studies. The book reveals the complexity of tomboi masculinity, showing how tombois enact both masculine and feminine behaviors as they move between the anonymity and vulnerability of public spaces and the familiarity of family spaces. Table of contents: Acknowledgments 1. Gender, Sexuality, and Queer desires 2. Shifting Discourses of Gender and Desire 3. Learning to Be Boys and Girls 4. Doing Gender 5. Desire and Difference 6. Ambiguities in Family, Community, and Public Spaces 7. Translocal Queer Connections | |
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| Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index. - 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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