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Migrating genders

by Schmidt, Johanna.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Published by : Ashgate Pub. Company, (Farnham, Surrey, England ; | Burlington, Vt. :) Physical details: xiv, 225 p.
Subject(s): Transgender people -- Samoa. | Transgender people -- New Zealand. | Gender identity -- Samoa. | Gender identity -- New Zealand. | Sex role -- Samoa. | Sex role -- New Zealand. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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