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Beauty and Power - Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines (Hardcover)
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Beauty and Power - Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines (Hardcover)
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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