Gender Transgression in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia

Blackwood, Evelyn

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“…There is an extensive historical record of individuals whose sex does not match their gender identity (Ramet, 1996). Such individuals have been identified in a number of cultures, from the Native American two-spirit people (Epple, 1998) to the Indonesian waria (Blackwood, 2005).…”

Section: A Brief Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Transgender Identity Development in Childhood and Adolescence

Boskey¹

2014

American Journal of Sexuality Education

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Many sexuality educators and professionals, even those involved in program development and planning, are not aware of the biological and social factors involved in gender identity development in youth. As such, this topic is often not as well addressed in whole life educational curricula as better understood topics, such as reproductive anatomy, puberty, and contraception. This review article is intended to provide an overview of gender identity development in childhood and adolescence, in order to encourage better integration of comprehensive understandings of gender identity into new sexuality education curricula through the inclusion of specific information about transgender and other gender nonconforming identities.

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Section: A Brief Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Transgender Identity Development in Childhood and Adolescence

Boskey¹

2014

American Journal of Sexuality Education

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“…A third, less commonly noted characteristic is that the 'abnormal' category is further subdivided into various types of abjection, while their shared origin has become blurred. Discussions on intersex bodies and transgender practices might have disrupted these binaries, but unfortunately these conversations hardly enter into mainstream discourses and policies (Blackwood 2005, FaustoSterling 2000, Peletz 2009, Wieringa 2010b). …”

Section: Heteronormativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion: Heteronormativity in India and Indonesia

Wieringa

2012

Asian Studies Review

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Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion; Heteronormativity in India and Indonesia[Please change all ize, ization, to ise, isation to follow our journal's style] Saskia Wieringa KeywordsHeteronormativity, India, Indonesia, sexual rights, same-sex relations, sex workers, lesbians, widows, divorced women AbstractBy exploring the life stories of women in same-sex relations, sex workers and widows/divorced women in Jakarta and Delhi, this article analyses the way heteronormativity marginalises these women, both those who identify as heterosexual and those who do not. To counter the physical, material and subversive forms of violence they experience, they engage in various forms of agency, including symbolic forms of subversion. The focus is on the major concepts developed in this study, passionate aesthetics and symbolic subversion. The narrators in this study deploy overlapping yet distinct strategies to carve out their lives. The subversion of heteronormativity ranges from political, activist intentions, to more invisible, symbolic acts, sometimes self-defeating. These forms of subversion are rooted in both embodied and social, public practices. In this article I discuss some of the major symbolic forms of subversion of heteronormativity that lie in between the ultimate defiance of (self) destruction and the struggle for human/women's/sexual rights. Five strategies will be discussed: seeking economic stability; finding sexual partners; glorifying motherhood; negotiating religious peace and claiming sexual speech. In the last section the embodiment of subversion is discussed.

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“…While interest in the systems and patterns of global political, economic and cultural interplay has a long history within both the social sciences and the humanities, queer studies analysis foregrounds the role of sexuality and gender within these transformative forces and multi-directional flows. In particular, queer studies scholars are increasingly pointing to the need for more analysis of the historical, social and economic exchanges and relationships within regional groupings, and between socio-cultural groupings that are not necessarily geographically bounded (ethnic, sexual, political, and so on) (Blackwood, 2005;Jackson, 2009;Peletz, 2007;Welker and Kam, 2006;Wieringa, Blackwood and Bhaiya, 2007;Boellstorff, 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

Korean-Pop,Tom Gay Kings,Les Queensand the Capitalist Transformation of Sex/Gender Categories in Thailand

Sinnott

2012

Asian Studies Review

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Since the early 2000s, masculine style for queer women in Thailand has been heavily influenced by Korean popular culture, or ''K-pop''. K-pop is marked by deliberate gender androgyny and overall gender play. This new aesthetics of masculinity used by masculine-identifying women has been accompanied by linguistic shifts in which explicitly sexualised terms, such as queen and king, themselves products of complex transnational borrowings, have been borrowed from Thai gay male culture. This paper seeks to explore the possibilities of queer cultural transformation through forms of commodified images and capitalist intrusions. It also explores the process of creative borrowings made through transnational, national and local circuits of knowledge. This article is based on ethnographic research conducted in 2009 and 2010 focused on young queer women in Bangkok who have adopted the K-pop style and the new sexualised terms of identity, such as tom gay king and les queen, for example. It is also based on review of printed material including the fashion magazine Tom Act and the NGO publication Anjareesarn.

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Gender Transgression in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia

Cited by 62 publications

References 32 publications

Understanding Transgender Identity Development in Childhood and Adolescence

Understanding Transgender Identity Development in Childhood and Adolescence

Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion: Heteronormativity in India and Indonesia

Korean-Pop,Tom Gay Kings,Les Queensand the Capitalist Transformation of Sex/Gender Categories in Thailand

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