Falling into the Lesbi World
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00947EZJM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 585 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
We see how tombois and femmes come to view themselves as boys and girls, respectively, through their interactions with family and community, and how as teenagers tombois learn that masculinity needs its opposite: feminine women. The childhood and adolescent narratives of tombois and femmes offer bold new insights into a social process that is rarely addressed in anthropological, lesbian, gay, or transgender studies. Through rich, in-depth, and provocative stories, author Evelyn Blackwood shows how these same-sex Indonesian couples negotiate transgressive identities and desires and
Peletz, Emory University. "Falling into the Lesbi World sheds valuable light on the ways in which locally distinctive sensibilities articulate with regional, national, and transnational discourses bearing on the making of gender and sexual identities among Indonesia's Minangkabau. This is a very sophisticated, nuanced, and theoretically provocative piece of work that is simultaneously lucid and compelling; it will be of great interest to Southeast Asianists and others committed to understanding gender diversity and sexual subjectivities in postcolonial contexts and beyond." Michael
Jeffery Mingo said pretty so-so. I love that books are being written about lesbians of color. I love that Sapphic love outside the West is being documented. However, this book was mediocre. I like the book that Dr. Blackwood edited better. This book just said lots of predictable things about butch-femme couples and it takes a looooong time to do it. I liked "Toms and