Gender on the Edge
eBook - PDF

Gender on the Edge

Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gender on the Edge

Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders

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Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
2014
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780824840198
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Australian & Oceanian History
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Chapter 1: Gender on the Edge Identities, Politics, Transformations
  3. Part I: Historical Transformations
  4. Chapter 2: Queer History and Its Discontents at Tahiti The Contested Politics of Modernity and Sexual Subjectivity
  5. Chapter 3: “Hollywood” and the Emergence of a Fa‘afafine Social Movement in Samoa, 1960–1980
  6. Chapter 4: Representing Fa‘afafine Sex, Socialization, and Gender Identity in Samoa
  7. Part II: Performing Gender
  8. Chapter 5: Living as and Living with Māhū and Raerae Geopolitics, Sex, and Gender in the Society Islands
  9. Chapter 6: Transgender in Samoa The Cultural Production of Gender Inequality
  10. Chapter 7: Re-Visioning Family Māhūwahine and Male-to-Female Transgender in Contemporary Hawai‘i
  11. Chapter 8: Men Trapped in Women’s Clothing Homosexuality, Cross-Dressing, and Masculinity in Fiji
  12. Chapter 9: Two Sea Turtles Intimacy between Men in the Marshall Islands
  13. Part III: Politics of the Global
  14. Chapter 10: The Fokisi and the Fakaleitī Provocative Performances in Tonga
  15. Chapter 11: Televisual Transgender Hybridizing the Mainstream in Pasifika New Zealand
  16. Chapter 12: Same Sex, Different Armies Sexual Minority Invisibility among Fijians in the Fiji Military Forces and British Army
  17. Chapter 13: In Sickness and in Health Evolving Trends in Gay Rights Advocacy in Fiji
  18. Chapter 14: On the Edge of Understanding Non-Heteronormative Sexuality in Papua New Guinea
  19. Chapter 15: Outwith the Law in Samoa and Tonga
  20. Notes on Contributors
  21. Index

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