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Migrating genders : westernisation, migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine / Johanna Schmidt.
Penn Museum Library HQ77.95.S36 S45 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidt, Johanna.
- Series:
- Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trans people--Samoa.
- Trans people.
- Trans people--New Zealand.
- Gender identity--Samoa.
- Gender identity.
- Gender identity--New Zealand.
- Sex role--Samoa.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--New Zealand.
- Transgender people.
- New Zealand.
- Samoa.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- (Re)defining Fa'afafine: the discursive construction of Samoan trangenderism
- Ideals of gender: men, women and Fa'afafine in fa'asamoa
- Paradise lost? social change and Fa'afafine in Samoa
- "You hardly see any grown men doing that sort of thing over here": Fa'afafine migrants' initial experiences of Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Reconciling femininity with Palagi identities: gay Fa'afafine men and passing Fa'afafine women
- Maintaining ambiguity: (re)claiming Fa'afafine identities in Aotearoa/New zealand
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409402732
- 1409402738
- 9781409402749
- 1409402746
- OCLC:
- 502418511
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