Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia

by Wieringa, Saskia E.; Blackwood, Evelyn; Bhaiya, Abha

• ISBN13: 9781403977687
• ISBN10: 1403977682
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Winner of the 2007 Ruth Benedict Award! A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women's same-sex sexualities and female masculinities in a globalizing Asia. Through richly detailed studies, contributors explore the emergence of contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships and communities throughout Asia and their location within the context of nationalist struggles, religious fundamentalism, state gender regimes, and global queer movements.

Author Biography

Evelyn Blackwood is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Women’s Studies, Purdue University. Saskia E. Wieringa is Senior Research Fellow, The University of Amsterdam, and Director of the International Women’s Center and Archives in Amsterdam. Abha Bhaiya is a founding member of Jagori, a feminist resource center based in Delhi.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Series Editor's Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Notes on Contributors	p. xiii
Globalization, Sexuality, and Silences: Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in an Asian Context	p. 1
Historical Legacies
Silence, Sin, and the System: Women's Same-Sex Practices in Japan	p. 23
Desire and Deviance in Classical Indian Philosophy: A Study of Female Masculinity and Male Femininity in the Tamil Folk Legend Alliyarasanimalai	p. 47
Conditional Subjectivities
The Spring That Flowers between Women	p. 69
Performing Gender along the Lesbian Continuum: The Politics of Sexual Identity in the Seito Society	p. 77
"But no one has explained to me who I am now...": "Trans" Self-Perceptions in Sri Lanka	p. 101
Female Masculinities
Gender Subjectivity: Dees and Toms in Thailand	p. 119
Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinities in Bugis South Sulawesi	p. 139
Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong	p. 159
Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings	p. 181
Silencing and Modes of Invisibility
Flames of Fire: Expressions and Denial of Female Sexuality	p. 203
Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan	p. 217
"She Has Come from the World of the Spirits...": Life Stories of Working-Class Lesbian Women in Northern India	p. 243
Index	p. 265
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