Falling into the Lesbi World : : Desire and Difference in Indonesia / / Evelyn Blackwood.
Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends ("femmes") in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. While likening themselves to heterosexual couples, tombois and femmes contest and blur dominant...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 3 b&w images, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Desires
- 2. Shifting Discourses of Gender and Desire
- 3. Learning to Be Boys and Girls
- 4. Doing Gender
- 5. Desire and Difference
- 6. Ambiguities in Family, Community, and Public Spaces
- 7. Translocal Queer Connections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author