Migrating genders [electronic resource] : westernisation, migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine / Johanna Schmidt.
By: Schmidt, Johanna.
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BookSeries: Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific: Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Company, c2010Description: 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 ZealandGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.76/8099614 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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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