Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0824838831 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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More fieldwork in Micronesia and Melanesia and a greater attention to the role that tourism plays in producing and enacting queer Pasifika identities are prompted by this invaluable collection. This is an enormously informative collection which will offer much to scholars and students in Pasifika studies, anthropology and sociology, while also offering a few new disciplinary approaches such as legal studies or media studies that call for future development. It is an essential addition to your library. It co
Opening the Door to Understanding Third-Gender Persons in Global Cultures Luccia J Rogers As academic, social, and cultural interest in third-gender, transgender, gay, lesbian, genderqueer, etc., identities increases and shifts from pathologizing to understanding, it is works like this book that help that process. It is an important contribution to exploring the historical and cultural importance of these people in cultures that have too long been merely, "the exotic other." Anyone seeking to increase their knowledge and understanding of third-gender persons in global cultures needs to include this book in their research and bibliographies.. D. Futter said This edited book is a very valuable addition to the. This edited book is a very valuable addition to the academic work published related to the Pacific and sexuality.
Niko Besnier is professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.
The authors recognize that different social configurations, cultural contexts, and historical trajectories generate diverse ways of being transgender across the societies of the region, but they also acknowledge that these differences are overlaid with commonalities and predictabilities. Rather than focus on the definition of identities, they engage with the fact that identities do things, that they are performed in everyday life, that they are transformed through events and movements, and that they are constantly negotiated. The transgender also exposes a host of dynamics that, at first glance, have little to do with gender or sex, such as processes of power and domination; the complex relationship among agency, subjectivity, and structure; and the mutual constitution of the global and the local.Particularly intriguing is th