ISBN:
978-0-8248-3883-6
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 378 S.
,
Ill.
Keywords:
Ozeanien Transsexualität
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Schwuler
;
Homosexualität
;
Verhalten, sexuelles
;
Diskriminierung
;
Massenmedien
;
Prostitution
;
Christentum
;
Kolonialismus
Abstract:
Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that transcend the normative pose important questions about society, culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for ex- ample, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories and render them necessary, inevitable, and natural. The transgender also exposes a host of dynamics that, at first glance, has little to do with gender or sex, such as processes of power and domination; the complex relationship among agency, subjectivity, and structure; and the mutual constitution of the global and the local. Particularly intriguing is the fact that gender and sexual diversity appear to be more prevalent in some regions of the world than in others. Gender on the Edge is an exploration of the ways in which non-normative gendering and sexuality in one such region, the Pacific Islands, are implicated in a wide range of socio-cultural dynamics that are at once local and global, historical, and contemporary. The editors recognize that different social configurations, cultural contexts, and historical trajectories generate diverse ways of being transgender across the societies of the region, but they also acknowledge that these differences are overlaid with commonalities and predictabilities. Rather than focusing on the definition of identities, the contributors engage with the fact that identities do things, that they are performed in everyday life, that they are transformed through events and movements, and that they are constantly negotiated. By addressing the complexities of these questions over time and space, this volume provides a model for future endeavors that seek to embed dynamics of gender and sexuality in a broad field of theoretical import.
Description / Table of 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 fa?afafine social movement in Samoa, 1960-1980 / Reevan Dolgoy -- Representing fa?afafine: sex, socialization, and gender identity in Samoa / Penelope Schoeffel -- Living as and living with ma¯hu¯ and raerae: geopolitics, sex, and gender in the Society Islands / Makiko Kuwahara -- Transgender in Samoa: the cultural production of gender inequality / Serge Tcherke´zoff -- Re-visioning family: ma¯hu¯ wahine and male-to-female transgender in contemporary Hawai?i / 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.
