Migrating genders: westernisation, migration, and Samoan fa'afafine

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Migrating genders: westernisation, migration, and Samoan fa'afafine

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This thesis is an investigation of how fa’afafine identities are constructed, maintained, and changed in the contexts of contemporary Samoa and New Zealand. Fa’afafine are biological Samoan males who, to varying degrees, enact feminised gender identities. In existent representations, fa’afafine tend to be interpreted through western conceptualisations of sex/gender/sexuality, or using models of ‘primitivism’, which locate them as instantiations of expressions of gender or sexuality that are m...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2005

Creator

Schmidt, Johanna Mary

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2309

Related subjects

Studies in Human Society / Other Studies In Human Society / Gender specific studies

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