Female Desires Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures |
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| Editor:
| Blackwood, Evelyn
Wieringa, Saskia |
| Series title: | Between Men, Between Women Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-11260-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $83.50 |
Book Description:
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This groundbreaking collection includes thirteen essays from historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss transgendered females and same-sex desire among women in Asia, Latin America, Native North America, and Africa. Offering compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims of male domination and compulsory heterosexuality, these essays on lesbian desire in ancient and modern India, butch-femme social types...
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This groundbreaking collection includes thirteen essays from historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss transgendered females and same-sex desire among women in Asia, Latin America, Native North America, and Africa. Offering compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims of male domination and compulsory heterosexuality, these essays on lesbian desire in ancient and modern India, butch-femme social types in Indonesia and Peru, and the lesbian movement in Mexico dispel the myth that same-sex female desire is rooted in Western neo-imperialist culture.