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(s): Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, Abha Bhaiya
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 296
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 14
One: Globalization, Sexuality, and Silences: Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in an Asian Context......Page 18
Part I Historical Legacies......Page 38
Two: Silence, Sin, and the System: Women’s Same-Sex Practices in Japan......Page 40
Three: Desire and Deviance in Classical Indian Philosophy: A Study of Female Masculinity and Male Femininity in the Tamil Folk Legend Alliyarasanimalai......Page 64
Part II Conditional Subjectivities......Page 84
Four: The Spring That Flowers between Women......Page 86
Five: Performing Gender along the Lesbian Continuum: The Politics of Sexual Identity in the Seitô Society......Page 94
Six: “But no one has explained to me who I am now . . .”: “Trans” Self-Perceptions in Sri Lanka......Page 118
Part III Female Masculinities......Page 134
Seven: Gender Subjectivity: Dees and Toms in Thailand......Page 136
Eight: Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinities in Bugis South Sulawesi......Page 156
Nine: Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong......Page 176
Ten: Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings......Page 198
Part IV Silencing and Modes of Invisibility......Page 218
Eleven: Flames of Fire: Expressions and Denial of Female Sexuality......Page 220
Twelve: Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan......Page 234
Thirteen: “She Has Come from the World of the Spirits . . .”: Life Stories of Working-Class Lesbian Women in Northern India......Page 260
B......Page 282
E......Page 283
F......Page 284
G......Page 285
H......Page 286
J......Page 287
L......Page 288
M......Page 289
N......Page 290
S......Page 291
T......Page 293
V......Page 294
W......Page 295
Y......Page 296
