Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia_Saskia E.Wieringa

Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia

Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, Abha Bhaiya

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Pages 296

Contents

List of Figures vii

Series Editor’s Foreword ix

Preface xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

One Globalization, Sexuality, and Silences: Women’s

Sexualities and Masculinities in an Asian Context 1

Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa

Part I Historical Legacies

Two Silence, Sin, and the System: Women’s Same-Sex

Practices in Japan 23

Saskia E. Wieringa

Three Desire and Deviance in Classical Indian Philosophy:

A Study of Female Masculinity and Male Femininity in the Tamil Folk Legend Alliyarasanimalai  47

Kanchana Natarajan

Part II Conditional Subjectivities

Four The Spring That Flowers between Women 69

Abha Bhaiya

Five Performing Gender along the Lesbian Continuum:

The Politics of Sexual Identity in the Seitô Society 77

Peichen Wu

Six “But no one has explained to me who I am now . . ”: “Trans” Self-Perceptions in Sri Lanka 101

Shermal Wijewardene

Part III Female Masculinities

Seven Gender Subjectivity: Dees and Toms in Thailand 119

Megan Sinnott

Eight Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinities in Bugis South Sulawesi 139

Sharyn Graham Davies

Nine Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong 159

Franco Lai

Ten Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings 181

Evelyn Blackwood

Part IV Silencing and Modes o Invisibility

Eleven Flames of Fire: Expressions and Denial of Female Sexuality 203

Abha Bhaiya

Twelve Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan 217

Jennifer Robertson

Thirteen “She Has Come from the World of the Spirits . . .”:

Life Stories of Working-Class Lesbian Women in Northern India 243

Maya Sharma

Index 265