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Author Johnson, Mark, 1963 October 9-

Title Beauty and power : transgendering and cultural transformation in the southern Philippines / Mark Johnson
Published Oxford, England ; New York, NY : Berg, 1997

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Description x, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Explorations in anthropology
Explorations in anthropology.
Contents 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
Subject Cross-dressers -- Philippines.
Sex role -- Philippines.
Transsexuals -- Philippines.
Gender identity -- Philippines.
SUBJECT Philippines -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116573
LC no. 98120131
ISBN 1859739202
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