Tombois and Femmes: Denying Gender Labels in Indonesia

Rp200.000

By Evelyn Blackwood

This book is a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends (“femmes”) in Padang, West Sumatra. Tombois are masculine females who identify as men and desire women; their girlfriends view themselves as normal women who desire men. Evelyn Blackwood shows how these same-sex Indonesian couples negotiate transgressive identities and desires and how their experiences speak to the struggles and desires of sexual and gender minorities everywhere.

 

Paperback: xii + 254 pages
ISBN: 978-979-25-1006-5
Language: English

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About the Author

Evelyn Blackwood has written extensively in areas of sexuality, gender, and kinship, including work on Native American female two-spirits, gender, transgression in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia, gender and power, and matrilineal kinship. In 2008 Dr. Blackwood was awarded the Martin Duberman Fellowship by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York for her research on tombois and femmes in Indonesia and for her longstanding contribution to the study of LGBT issues.

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Dimensions 15,24 × 23 cm

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