1st Edition
Beauty and Power Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines
By Mark Johnson
Copyright 1997
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1 On Location(s): Cultural Crossings and Transformational Genders, 2 Gender, History and Power: The Politics of Identities and Identifications 3 On the Engenderment of Gay/Bantut Sexuality 4 Growing Up Gay: Narrative Themes in Gay Life-Histories 5 Beauty and Vulgarity: Occupational Reinventions and Aesthetic Circumscriptions of the Gay(Bantut 6 Imagining Love: Cartographies of Homosocialities and Transgenderal Identities 7 Anomalous Bodies: Transgenderings and Cultural Transformations
Biography
Mark Johnson University of Hull
