Migrating genders : westernisation, migration, and Samoan fa'afafine / Johanna Schmidt.
Material type: TextSeries: 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
- unmediated
- volume
- 1409402738
- 9781409402732
- 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.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.768099614 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A472767B |
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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