Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia - Softcover

Wahlroos, Sven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824834879 ISBN 13: 9780824834876

Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Blackwood Evelyn

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Críticas:

Not only is [this book] rich in ethnographic data specific to Padang, but it also contextualizes the findings within a wider Indonesian, South East Asian, and global context. At a theoretical level, it unsettles conventional notions of traditional and modern sexualities and normative ideas of gender. A rewarding and engaging read, carefully referenced, and with complete bibliography and index, Evelyn Blackwood's latest work will surely become essential reading for all students and scholars interested in this field.-- "South East Asia Research" An impressive book which straddles ethnography, gender and queer theory, and Indonesia and the world. . . . A terrific accomplishment, worth perservering through the sometimes opaque academic language, for its rich insights.-- "New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies"

Reseña del editor:

Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends (femmes) in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. While likening themselves to heterosexual couples, tombois and femmes contest and blur dominant constructions of gender and heterosexuality. Tombois are masculine females who identify as men and desire women; their girlfriends view themselves as normal women who desire men. Through rich, in-depth, and provocative stories, author Evelyn Blackwood shows how these same-sex Indonesian couples negotiate transgressive identities and desires and how their experiences speak to the struggles and desires of sexual and gender minorities everywhere. Blackwood analyzes the complex and seemingly contradictory practices of tombois and their partners, demonstrating how they make sense of Islamic, transnational, and modern state discourses in ways that seem to align with normative gender and sexual categories while at the same time subverting them. The childhood and adolescent narratives of tombois and femmes offer bold new insights into a social process that is rarely addressed in anthropological, lesbian, gay, or transgender studies. We see how tombois and femmes come to view themselves as boys and girls, respectively, through their interactions with family and community, and how as teenagers tombois learn that masculinity needs its opposite: feminine women. By contrast femmes notice shifts in their desires as they develop long-term relationships with tombois. The book reveals the complexity of tomboi masculinity, showing how tombois enact both masculine and feminine behaviors as they move between the anonymity and vulnerability of public spaces and the familiarity of family spaces. Falling into the Lesbi World demonstrates how nationally and globally circulating queer discourses are received and reinterpreted by tombois and femmes in a city in Indonesia. Though less educated than many internet-savvy activists in major urban centers, their identities are clearly both part of yet different than global gay models of sexuality. In contrast to the international LGBT model of modern sexualities, this work reveals a multiplicity of sexual and gender subjectivities in Indonesia, arguing for the importance of recognizing and validating this diversity in the global gay ecumene.

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• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0824834879
• ISBN 13: 9780824834876
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 251