A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women's same-sex sexualities and female masculinities in a globalizing Asia. INDICE: - Globalization, Sexuality and Silences: Women's Same-Sex Experiences in a Globalizing Asia; E.Blackwood ; S.E.Wieringa - PART I: HISTORICAL LEGACIES - Silence, Sin and the System: Women's Same-Sex Practices in Japan; S.E.Wieringa - Desire and Deviance in Classical Indian Philosophy: A Study of Female Masculinity and Male Femininity in the Tamil Folk Legend; A.K.Natarajan - PART II: CONDITIONAL SUBJECTIVITIES - The Spring that Flowers between Women; A.Bhaiya - Performing Gender along the Lesbian Continuum: The Politics of SexualIdentity in the Seitô Society; P.Wu - 'But no one has explained to me who I am nowb&': 'Trans' Self-perceptions in Sri Lanka; S.Wijewardene - PART III: FEMALE MASCULINITIES - Gender Subjectivity: Dees and Toms in Thailand; M.Sinnott - Hunting down Love: Female Masculinity in Bugis South Sulawesi; S.G.Davies - Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong; F.Lai - Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings; E.Blackwood - PART IV: SILENCING AND MODES OF INVISIBILITY - Flames of Fire: Expressions and Denial of Female Sexuality; A.Bhaiya - Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan; J.Robertson - 'She has come from the world of the spiritsb&': Life Stories of Working-class Lesbian Women in Northern India; M.Sharma
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61748-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 28/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés