Gender on the Edge : : Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders /

Gender on the Edge : : Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders / / ed. by Niko Besnier, Kalissa Alexeyeff.

Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that transcend the normative pose important questions about society, culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for example, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories and render them necessary, inevitable...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016
MitwirkendeR:
Alexeyeff, Kalissa,
Besnier, Niko,
Dolgoy, Reevan,
Dvorak, Greg,
Elliston, Deborah,
Farran, Sue,
George, Nicole,
Good, Mary K.,
Ikeda, Linda L.,
Kuwahara, Makiko,
Pearson, Sarina,
Presterudstuen, Geir Henning,
Stewart, Christine,
Tcherkézoff, Serge,
Teaiwa, Teresia K.,
HerausgeberIn:
Alexeyeff, Kalissa,
Besnier, Niko,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 14 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Gender on the Edge Identities, Politics, Transformations
  • Part I: Historical Transformations
  • Chapter 2: Queer History and Its Discontents at Tahiti The Contested Politics of Modernity and Sexual Subjectivity
  • Chapter 3: "Hollywood" and the Emergence of a Fa'afafine Social Movement in Samoa, 1960-1980
  • Chapter 4: Representing Fa'afafine Sex, Socialization, and Gender Identity in Samoa
  • Part II: Performing Gender
  • Chapter 5: Living as and Living with Māhū and Raerae Geopolitics, Sex, and Gender in the Society Islands
  • Chapter 6: Transgender in Samoa The Cultural Production of Gender Inequality
  • Chapter 7: Re-Visioning Family Māhūwahine and Male-to-Female Transgender in Contemporary Hawai'i
  • Chapter 8: Men Trapped in Women's Clothing Homosexuality, Cross-Dressing, and Masculinity in Fiji
  • Chapter 9: Two Sea Turtles Intimacy between Men in the Marshall Islands
  • Part III: Politics of the Global
  • Chapter 10: The Fokisi and the Fakaleitī Provocative Performances in Tonga
  • Chapter 11: Televisual Transgender Hybridizing the Mainstream in Pasifika New Zealand
  • Chapter 12: Same Sex, Different Armies Sexual Minority Invisibility among Fijians in the Fiji Military Forces and British Army
  • Chapter 13: In Sickness and in Health Evolving Trends in Gay Rights Advocacy in Fiji
  • Chapter 14: On the Edge of Understanding Non-Heteronormative Sexuality in Papua New Guinea
  • Chapter 15: Outwith the Law in Samoa and Tonga
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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