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Gender on the edge : transgender, gay, and other Pacific Islanders

Title
Gender on the edge : transgender, gay, and other Pacific Islanders / edited by Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff.
Publication
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Besnier, Niko
  • Alexeyeff, Kalissa
Description
vi, 378 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Gender on the edge: identities, politics, transformations / Kalissa Alexeyeff and Niko Besnier -- Queer history and its discontents at Tahiti: the contested politics of modernity and sexual subjectivity / Deborah Elliston -- "Hollywood" and the emergence of a faʻafafine social movement in Samoa, 1960-1980 / Reevan Dolgoy -- Representing faʻafafine: sex, socialization, and gender identity in Samoa / Penelope Schoeffel -- Living as and living with māhū and raerae: geopolitics, sex, and gender in the Society Islands / Makiko Kuwahara -- Transgender in Samoa: the cultural production of gender inequality / Serge Tcherkézoff -- Re-visioning family: māhū wahine and male-to-female transgender in contemporary Hawaiʻi / Linda L. Ikeda -- Men trapped in women's clothing: homosexuality, cross-dressing, and masculinity in Fiji / Geir Henning Presterudstuen -- Two sea turtles: intimacy between men in the Marshall Islands / Greg Dvorak -- The fokisi and the fakaleiti: provocative performances in Tonga / Mary Good -- Televisual transgender: hybridizing the mainstream in Pasifika New Zealand / Sarina Pearson -- Same sex, different armies: sexual minority invisibility among Fijians in the Fiji military forces and British army / Teresia K. Teaiwa -- In sickness and in health: evolving trends in gay rights advocacy in Fiji / Nicole George -- On the edge of understanding: non-heteronormative sexuality in Papua New Guinea / Christine Stewart -- Outwith the law in Samoa and Tonga / Sue Farran.
Call Number
JFE 15-2978
ISBN
  • 9780824838829
  • 0824838823
  • 9780824838836
  • 0824838831
LCCN
2013040578
OCLC
864709525
Title
Gender on the edge : transgender, gay, and other Pacific Islanders / edited by Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff.
Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Besnier, Niko, editor.
Alexeyeff, Kalissa, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 15-2978
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