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Gender on the edge

Gender on the edge transgender, gay, and other Pacific islanders / [electronic resource] : edited by Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Tcherkezoff -- 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.

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Sex role--Oceania.
Gays--Oceania.
Transgender people--Oceania.


Electronic books.

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