Transgender in Polynesia
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| Publication date | 2015 |
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| Book title | The international encyclopedia of human sexuality |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1389-1390 |
| Publisher | Chichester: Wiley Blackwell |
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| Abstract | Most societies of Polynesia include a small minority of nonnormatively gendered people. These are highly effeminate men and masculine women, whose gendering also implies an erotic attraction to persons of the same sex who are normatively gendered. The gender crossing that transgender Polynesians exhibit involves the crossing of other boundaries, including the boundary between the local and the global. Colonialism has given different cultural configurations to the meaning of transgender across societies of the region and political positions within societies. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118896877.wbiehs517 |
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