Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures (Paperback)

1. Introduction, by Saskia E. Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood
2. Sapphic Shadows:Challenging the Silence in the Study of Sexuality, by Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa
Indigenous Histories Colonial Legacies
3. The Politics of Identities and Languages:Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India, by Giti Thadani
4. Lesbians, Men-Women, and Two-Spirits:Homosexuality and Gender in Native American Cultures
Erotic Intimacies and Cultural Identities
5. "What's Identity Got to Do with It?" Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname, by Gloria Wekker
6. Let Them Take Ecstasy: Class and Jakarta Lesbians, by Alison J. Murray
7. Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia, by Kendall
Doing Masculinity:Butches, Female Bodies,and Transgendered Identities
8. Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire, by Evelyn Blackwood
9. Desiring Bodies or Defiant Cultures:Butch-Femme Lesbians in Jakarta and Lima, by Saskia E. Wieringa
10. Negotiating Transnational Sexual Economies: Femaleand Same-Sex Sexuality in "Tahiti and Her Islands", by Deborah A. Elliston
Nationalism, Feminism,and Lesbian/Gay Rights Movements
11. How Homosexuality Became "Un-African": The Case of Zimbabwe, by Margrete Aarmo
12. Women's Sexuality and the Discourse on Asian Values:Cross-Dressing in Malaysia, by Tan beng hui
13. Sexual Preference:the Ugly Duckling of Feminist Demands:The Lesbian Movement in Mexico, by Norma Mogro