Female Desires
Author | : Evelyn Blackwood |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : 0231112610 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780231112611 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection includes thirteen essays from historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss transgendered females and same-sex desire among women in Asia, Latin America, Native North America, and Africa. Offering compelling evidence against the commonly accepted notion that non-Western women are generally passive victims of male domination and compulsory heterosexuality, these essays on lesbian desire in ancient and modern India, butch-femme social types in Indonesia and Peru, and the lesbian movement in Mexico dispel the myth that same-sex female desire is rooted in Western neo-imperialist culture.