Johanna Schmidt

Migrating Genders

Westernisation, Migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on rich empirical material, this book tells of both the diversity and the uniqueness of fa'afafine identities, aspects which fa'afafine have maintained in the face of Westernization, migration, and cultural marginalization in both Samoa and New Zealand. As such, in addition to anthropologists, it will be of interest to geographers, sociolog

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780367882549
• ISBN-10: 036788254X
• Artikelnr.: 58439906

Autorenporträt

Johanna Schmidt is a honorary research fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

(Re)defining fa'afafine: the discursive construction of Samoan
trangenderism. Ideals of gender: Men, women and fa'afafine in fa'aSamoa.
Paradise lost? Social change and fa'afafine in Samoa. 'You hardly see any
grown men doing that sort of thing over here': Fa'afafine migrants' initial
experiences of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Reconciling femininity with palagi
identities: Gay fa'afafine men and passing fa'afafine women. Maintaining
ambiguity: (re)claiming fa'afafine identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand.