Female Desires
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231112610 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Essays include Giti Thadani on lesbian desire in ancient and modern India, Saskia Wieringa on butch-femme social types in Indonesia and Peru, and Norma Mogrovejo on the lesbian movement in Mexico.In a larger sense, the essays attempt to look past the ethnocentric categories in which sexuality, identity, and culture are often considered.. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa have compiled thirteen essays from a group of historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss same-sex desire among women outside the West, exploring female eroticism in such societies and cultures as India, Polynesia, Latin America, Native North America, and southern Africa.Female Desires offers compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims of male domination and compulsory heterosexuality. It also dispells the idea that same-sex female desire is rooted in Western neo-imperialist culture: contributors show non-Western women to be active agents of their own sexual identities
"Move over, Sappho and Gertrude Stein!" according to Jeffery Mingo. So much writing about homosexuality covers men in the West only. Through his monographs, Stephen Murray has done a lot to cover same-sex love between men outside of the West. Finally, this anthology is an attempt to cover non-Western lesbian and transgendered women.Many books have said female bisexuals have tensions with monosexual lesbians. (Examples include "Bi Any Other Name," "Closer to Home," and "Bisexual Politics.") Halberstam has said that female-to-male transsexuals and butch lesbians have also had tensions.
A significant contribution to the exciting and growing literature on international feminism and womens political organizing. A landmark event in a number of different fields: lesbian and gay studies, womens studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies. It addresses a significant silence in recent treatments of feminist movements and gender in developing countries, in that it focuses specifically on womens alternative sexualities.
Evelyn Blackwood is assistant professor of anthropology and women's studies at Purdue University. She is the editor of The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior. Saskia Wieringa is a senior lecturer in women's studies at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague