Migrating genders
Subtitle: westernisation, migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine
By: by Johanna Schmidt.
Series: Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409402732; 9781409402749
Subjects: Transgender people -- Samoa; Transgender people -- New Zealand; Gender identity -- Samoa; Gender identity -- New Zealand; Sex role -- Samoa; Sex role -- New Zealand
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: (re)defining Fa'afafine: the discursive construction of Samoan trangenderism; title: Ideals of gender: men, women and Fa'afafine in fa'asamoa; title: Paradise lost? social change and Fa'afafine in Samoa; title: "you hardly see any grown men doing that sort of thing over here": Fa'afafine migrants' initial experiences of Aotearoa/New Zealand; title: Reconciling femininity with Palagi identities: gay Fa'afafine men and passing Fa'afafine women; title: Maintaining ambiguity: (re)claiming Fa'afafine identities in Aotearoa/New zealand; title: Conclusion.