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Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures

Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures

Blackwood, Evelyn
Wieringa, Saskia

Paperback

Series: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

AnthropologyGLBTQIA StudiesSexuality

ISBN10: 0231112610
ISBN13: 9780231112611
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 26 1999
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa have compiled thirteen essays from a group of historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss same-sex desire among women outside the West, exploring female eroticism in such societies and cultures as India, Polynesia, Latin America, Native North America, and southern Africa.Female Desires offers compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims of male domination and compulsory heterosexuality. It also dispells the idea that same-sex female desire is rooted in Western neo-imperialist culture: contributors show non-Western women to be active agents of their own sexual identities. Essays include Giti Thadani on lesbian desire in ancient and modern India, Saskia Wieringa on butch-femme social types in Indonesia and Peru, and Norma Mogrovejo on the lesbian movement in Mexico.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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