Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures
Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa have compiled thirteen essays from a group of historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss same-sex desire among women outside the West, exploring female eroticism in such societies and cultures as India, Polynesia, Latin America, Native North America, and southern Africa. Female Desires offers compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims of male domination and compulsory...
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This groundbreaking collection includes thirteen essays from historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss transgendered females and same-sex desire among women in Asia, Latin America, Native North America, and Africa. Offering compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims Booknews Rejecting the idea that same-sex female love is an outgrowth of Western culture, Blackwood (anthropology and women's studies, Purdue U.) and Wieringa (women's studies, Institute of Social Studies at The Hague) assemble essays that show the powerful nature of non-Western lesbian relationships. The multidisciplinary articles examine cultural practices in both history and the modern world. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceNotes on Contributors1Introduction12Sapphic Shadows: Challenging the Silence in the Study of Sexuality393The Politics of Identities and Languages: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India674Lesbians, Men-Women, and Two-Spirits: Homosexuality and Gender in Native American Cultures915"What's Identity Got to Do with It?" Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname1196Let Them Take Ecstasy: Class and Jakarta Lesbians1397Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia1578Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire1819Desiring Bodies or Defiant Cultures: Butch-Femme Lesbians in Jakarta and Lima20610Negotiating Transnational Sexual Economies: Female Mahu and Same-Sex Sexuality in "Tahiti and Her Islands"23011How Homosexuality Became "Un-African": The Case of Zimbabwe25512Women's Sexuality and the Discourse on Asian Values: Cross-Dressing in Malaysia28113Sexual Preference, the Ugly Duckling of Feminist Demands: The Lesbian Movement in Mexico308Index337
\ BooknewsRejecting the idea that same-sex female love is an outgrowth of Western culture, Blackwood (anthropology and women's studies, Purdue U.) and Wieringa (women's studies, Institute of Social Studies at The Hague) assemble essays that show the powerful nature of non-Western lesbian relationships. The multidisciplinary articles examine cultural practices in both history and the modern world. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
