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Gender on the Edge - Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders (Hardcover)
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Gender on the Edge - Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders (Hardcover)
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Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that
transcend the normative pose important questions about society,
culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for ex-
ample, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories
and render them necessary, inevitable, and natural. The transgender
also exposes a host of dynamics that, at first glance, has little
to do with gender or sex, such as processes of power and
domination; the complex relationship among agency, subjectivity,
and structure; and the mutual constitution of the global and the
local. Particularly intriguing is the fact that gender and sexual
diversity appear to be more prevalent in some regions of the world
than in others. Gender on the Edge is an exploration of the ways in
which non-normative gendering and sexuality in one such region, the
Pacific Islands, are implicated in a wide range of socio-cultural
dynamics that are at once local and global, historical, and
contemporary. The editors recognize that different social
configurations, cultural contexts, and historical trajectories
generate diverse ways of being transgender across the societies of
the region, but they also acknowledge that these differences are
overlaid with commonalities and predictabilities. Rather than
focusing on the definition of identities, the contributors engage
with the fact that identities do things, that they are performed in
everyday life, that they are transformed through events and
movements, and that they are constantly negotiated. By addressing
the complexities of these questions over time and space, this
volume provides a model for future endeavors that seek to embed
dynamics of gender and sexuality in a broad field of theoretical
import.
General
Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2014 |
First published: |
February 2014 |
Editors: |
Niko Besnier
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
408 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-3882-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Gender studies >
General
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LSN: |
0-8248-3882-3 |
Barcode: |
9780824838829 |
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