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Beauty and Power - Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines (Paperback)
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Beauty and Power - Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines (Paperback)
Series: Explorations in Anthropology
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This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the
Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the
relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the
politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of
cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers and
transnational consumers. The book focuses, in particular, on the
meaning and experience of local 'gays' --
transvestite/transgender-homosexual men -- who are at once
celebrated as purveyors of beauty (defined in terms of a global
American otherness) and valorized as impotent men and defiled
women. In short, America functions both as a sign of their abjected
status and as a space for imagining and reformulating various
gendered identities.This innovative work -- one of the first
ethnographic studies to be published in the aftermath of the
region's civil unrest -- will be of interest to anyone working on
gender, the body and sexuality. Not only does it extend the
boundaries of cross-cultural studies of non-mainstream genders and
sexualities by directly engaging the entanglement of local
sensibilities with global images and discourse, but it also
demonstrates that there is nothing ambiguous about ambiguity --
gendered, sexual or otherwise. Rather, this ambiguity is the
specific product of different historical relations of power through
which various cultural subjects are created and re-create
themselves.
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