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Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders
Susan Brownell
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Description for Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders
Hardcover. Editor(s): Besnier, Niko. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 658.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824838829
SKU
V9780824838829
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About Susan Brownell
Niko Besnier teaches anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Kalissa Alexeyeff is a McArthur Fellow in the gender studies program at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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