TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blackwood,Evelyn
AU  - Wieringa,Saskia
TI  - Female desires: same-sex relations and transgender practices across cultures 
T2  - Between men--between women
SN  - 0231112602
AV  - HQ75.5 .F43 1999
U1  - 306.766 21
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Lesbianism
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Developing countries
N1  - 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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