Migrating genders : westernisation, migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schmidt, Johanna
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Series:	Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
Subjects:	Transgender people > Samoa. Transgender people > New Zealand. Gender identity > Samoa. Gender identity > New Zealand. Sex role > Samoa. Sex role > New Zealand.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
(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
Conclusion.