More tomboy, more bakla than we admit
Subtitle: insights into sexual and gender diversity in Philippine culture, history, and politics
By: edited by Mark Blasius and Richard T. Chu
Contributors: Vibal Foundation, Inc
Series: Academica Filipina
Publisher: Vibal Foundation
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Quezon City, Philippines
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9789719707158; 9789719707141; 9789719707370
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Gay men; Identity; Lesbians; Gender identity; History; Transsexuals; Social conditions; Homosexuels masculins; Identité; Gays; Social aspects
Other titles: Insights into sexual and gender diversity in Philippine culture, history, and politics
Description: In the Philippines, those who do not fall neatly within the dictated norms of gender and sexuality have often been rendered invisible, if not condemned outright by a mainstream society heavily steeped in westernized gender roles and Catholic notions of sexual propriety. Yet such individuals have existed throughout Philippine history, from the androgynous bayog and asog shamans of precolonial times to members of the Chinese community persecuted for sodomy in Spanish Manila, lesbian activists of the last few decades striving for recognition within a greater feminist movement, to transpinay (transgender) organizers and multiple local, regional, and national spokespeople, to contemporary gay and "bi" men representing themselves on the Web.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.
Table of contents: title: Unit I: Theoretical and historical framings / Unit II: Histories of sexuality in precolonial Philippines / Unit III: Filipino sexual and gender identities / Unit IV: Negotiating sexual an gender diversity in recent Philippine culture / Unit V: Between the personal and political