Introduction: Transvestite Performances -- 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
Summary
This 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
Notes
Bibliography: p245-254. - Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index