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Migrating genders : westernisation, migration, and Samoan fa'afafine / Johanna Schmidt.

Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-PacificPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1409402738
  • 9781409402732
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.768099614
Contents:
Introduction -- (re)defining Fa'afafine: the discursive construction of Samoan trangenderism -- Ideals of gender: men, women and Fa'afafine in fa'asamoa -- Paradise lost? social change and Fa'afafine in Samoa -- "you hardly see any grown men doing that sort of thing over here": Fa'afafine migrants' initial experiences of Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Reconciling femininity with Palagi identities: gay Fa'afafine men and passing Fa'afafine women -- Maintaining ambiguity: (re)claiming Fa'afafine identities in Aotearoa/New zealand -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index.

Introduction -- (re)defining Fa'afafine: the discursive construction of Samoan trangenderism -- Ideals of gender: men, women and Fa'afafine in fa'asamoa -- Paradise lost? social change and Fa'afafine in Samoa -- "you hardly see any grown men doing that sort of thing over here": Fa'afafine migrants' initial experiences of Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Reconciling femininity with Palagi identities: gay Fa'afafine men and passing Fa'afafine women -- Maintaining ambiguity: (re)claiming Fa'afafine identities in Aotearoa/New zealand -- Conclusion.

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