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bs_bs_banner Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol. 57, No. 3, December 2016 ISSN 1360-7456, pp406–408 Reviews Sexuality and divergence in the Pacific: Other Functionalist in approach, this chapter gives sides of the heteronormative story … both arguments and counter-arguments as a bal- anced perspective to sex, socialisation and gen- Besnier, Niko and Alexeyeff, Kalissa (Eds). der identity in Samoa. 2014. Gender on the edge: Transgender, gay, ‘Performing Gender’ starts with Kuwahara and other Pacific Islanders. Honolulu: Univer- who also addresses the gender identity of the sity of Hawaii Press, 378 pp, USD$35.00, ISBN: māhū (and raerae), from a comparatively geopo- 978-0-8248-3883-6. litical perspective that explores the ‘complex From the outset of their introduction Besnier interface of global and local forces’. Presterudstuen’s chapter follows on with a and Alexeyeff labour comprehensively to articu- late their key ideas of gender, identity, politics thought-provoking glimpse into ‘gendered self- and transformations realised in the Pacific, identification among non-heteronormative eth- nic Fijian men’. Wrapping up this chapter, critical ideas that reflect real life social juxtapo- sitions regarding gender and sexuality. As an in- Dvorak elaborates on Marshallese complexities, digenous academic with anthropological connotations, conflations and contradictions re- garding the overarching western concepts of gay research interests
Asia Pacific Viewpoint – Wiley
Published: Dec 1, 2016
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