Female desires : same-sex relations and transgender practices across cultures /
edited by Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa.
- xvii, 348 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.
- Between men--between women .
- Between men--between women. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Saskia E. Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood -- Sapphic shadows: challenging the silence in the study of sexuality / Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa -- The politics of identities and languages: lesbian desire in ancient and modern India / Giti Thadani -- Lesbians, men-women, and two-spirits: homosexuality and gender in Native American cultures / Sabine Lang -- "What's identity got to do with it?" rethinking identity in light of the Mati work in Suriname / Gloria Wekker -- Let them take ecstasy: class and Jakarta lesbians / Alison J. Murray -- Women in Lesotho and the (western) construction of homophobia / Kendall -- Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity and erotic desire / Evelyn Blackwood -- Desiring bodies or defiant cultures: butch-femme lesbians in Jakarta and Lima / Saskia E. Wieringa -- Negotiating transnational sexual economies: female Māhū and same-sex sexuality in "Tahiti and her islands" / Deborah A. Elliston -- How homosexuality became "un-African": the case of Zimbabwe / Margrete Aarmo -- Women's Sexuality and the discourse on Asian values: cross-dressing in Malaysia / Tan beng hui -- Sexual preference, the ugly duckling of feminist demands: the lesbian movement in Mexico / Norma Mogrovejo.
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