Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia

Through detailed studies, this collection of writings by academics and activists explores the emergence of contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships and communities throughout Asia and their location within the context of nationalist struggles, religious fundamentalism, state gender regimes and global queer movements.

Globalization, Sexuality and Silences: Women's Same-Sex Experiences in a Globalizing Asia; E. Blackwood & S. Wieringa PART I: HISTORICAL LEGACIES Silence, Sin and the System: Women's Same-Sex Practices in Japan; S. Wieringa Desire and Deviance in Classical Indian Philosophy: A Study of Female Masculinity and Male Femininity in the Tamil Folk Legend; A. K. Natarajan PART II: CONDTITONAL SUBJECTIVITIES The Spring that Flowers between Women; A. Bhaiya Performing Gender along the Lesbian Continuum: The Politics of Sexual Identity in the Seitô Society; P. Wu 'But no one has explained to me who I am now': 'Trans' Self-perceptions in Sri Lanka; S. Wijewardene PART III: FEMALE MASCULINITIES Gender Subjectivity: Dees and Toms in Thailand; M. Sinnott Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinity in Bugis South Sulawesi; S. Graham Davies Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong; F. Lai Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings; E. Blackwood PART IV: SILENCING AND MODES OF INVISIBILITY Flames of Fire: Expressions and Denial of Female Sexuality; A. Bhaiya Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan; J. Robertson 'She has come from the world of the spirits': Life Stories of Working-class Lesbian Women in Northern India; M. Sharma