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Female Desires – Same–Sex Relations & Transgender Practices Across Cultures: Same Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies) - Hardcover
This is a compilation of multidisciplinary essays which discuss same-sex desire among women outside of Western culture. It explores female eroticism in such societies and cultures as India, Polynesia, Latin America, Native North America and southern Africa. The book offers evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims of male domination and compulsory heterosexuality. It also attempts to dispell the idea that same-sex female desire is rooted in Western neo-imperialist culture. In a larger sense, the essays attempt to look past the ethnocentric categories in which sexuality, identity and culture are often considered.
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A landmark event in a number of different fields: lesbian and gay studies, womens studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies. It addresses a significant silence in recent treatments of feminist movements and gender in developing countries, in that it focuses specifically on womens alternative sexualities. . . . A significant contribution to the exciting and growing literature on international feminism and womens political organizing.
About the Author:
Evelyn Blackwood is assistant professor of anthropology and women's studies at Purdue University. She is the editor of The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior. Saskia Wieringa is a senior lecturer in women's studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. She is the author of The Politicization of Gender Relations in Indonesia: Women's Organizations and the New Order, coauthor of Women, The Environment, and Sustainable Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis, and editor of several other books.
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0231112602
- ISBN 13 9780231112604
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages368
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