Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders
Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders
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DOI：
10.21313/hawaii/9780824838829.001.0001
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2014-12
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N. Besnier;Kalissa Alexeyeff
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作者：
N. Besnier;Kalissa Alexeyeff
跨性别身份以及超越规范的其他形式的性别和性行为提出了有关社会、文化、政治和历史的重要问题。例如，它们迫使我们质疑将人类分为两个性别类别并使它们变得必要、不可避免和自然的力量。跨性别者还暴露了许多乍一看与性别或性别无关的动态，例如权力和统治的过程；代理、主体性和结构之间的复杂关系；以及全局和局部的相互构成。特别有趣的是，性别和性多样性在世界某些地区似乎比其他地区更为普遍。 《边缘的性别》探索了太平洋岛屿这样一个地区的非规范性别和性行为如何与当地和全球、历史和当代的广泛社会文化动态有关的方式。编辑们认识到，不同的社会结构、文化背景和历史轨迹在该地区的社会中产生了不同的跨性别方式，但他们也承认这些差异被共性和可预测性所覆盖。贡献者没有关注身份的定义，而是关注这样一个事实：身份在做事，它们在日常生活中表现，它们通过事件和运动而改变，并且它们不断地被协商。通过解决这些问题在时间和空间上的复杂性，本书为未来的努力提供了一个模型，旨在将性别和性的动态嵌入到广泛的理论意义领域中。
Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that transcend the normative pose important questions about society, culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for ex- ample, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories and render them necessary, inevitable, and natural. The transgender also exposes a host of dynamics that, at first glance, has little to do with gender or sex, such as processes of power and domination; the complex relationship among agency, subjectivity, and structure; and the mutual constitution of the global and the local. Particularly intriguing is the fact that gender and sexual diversity appear to be more prevalent in some regions of the world than in others. Gender on the Edge is an exploration of the ways in which non-normative gendering and sexuality in one such region, the Pacific Islands, are implicated in a wide range of socio-cultural dynamics that are at once local and global, historical, and contemporary. The editors recognize that different social configurations, cultural contexts, and historical trajectories generate diverse ways of being transgender across the societies of the region, but they also acknowledge that these differences are overlaid with commonalities and predictabilities. Rather than focusing on the definition of identities, the contributors engage with the fact that identities do things, that they are performed in everyday life, that they are transformed through events and movements, and that they are constantly negotiated. By addressing the complexities of these questions over time and space, this volume provides a model for future endeavors that seek to embed dynamics of gender and sexuality in a broad field of theoretical import.