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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 842–845.
Published: 01 August 2012
... and is challenged by people's self-definitions. Blackwood's beautifully detailed and captivating ethnography, Falling into the Lesbi World, explores the lives of West Sumatran tombois , masculine females who identify as men, and their partners ( femmes ), who identify as “normal” women who desire men...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1195–1196.
Published: 01 November 2010
... fiction writing, in which an everywoman figure is attracted to a tomboy, loses her youthful love, and later enters into a heterosexual marriage. As a figure of loss, she is meant to command the sympathy and understanding of the reader. The representation of the masculine tomboy, in contrast, is based...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 849–879.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Sabine . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Blackwood Evelyn 1998 . “ Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire .” Cultural Anthropology 13 ( 4 ): 491 – 521 . Blackwood Evelyn 2000 . Webs of Power: Women, Kin, and Community in a Sumatran Village...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1239–1241.
Published: 01 November 2009
... relations by occupying “gender normative yet sexually ambiguous” positions because “they do not neatly fit the transgender-normative gender pair model” (p. 123). Similarly, Franco Lai explores the masculine–feminine categories of TB (tomboy) and TBG (tomboy's girl), as well as “pure” (pure lesbian, one who...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 449–451.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., participating in community-building activities, and providing care and support for one another when they confront legal and other vocational predicaments. 1 An interesting example is that since sex is strictly policed in the training centers, tomboi —women with more masculine traits, as opposed to cewek...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 17–31.
Published: 01 February 2010
... and Southeast Asian contexts, terms for masculine women rely on an adaptation of the English word “tomboy.” Tom in Thailand, tomboi in Indonesia, and TB in Hong Kong are all types of female masculinities in which sexual attraction to gender-normative feminine women is a taken-for-granted cultural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 927–946.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in Davies, Gender Diversity in Indonesia , 128. 61 Sinnott, Toms and Dees ; Evelyn Blackwood, “Trans Identities and Contingent Masculinities: Being Tombois in Everyday Practice,” Feminist Studies 35, no. 3 (2009): 454–80; Blackwood, Falling into the Lesbi World ; Davies, Gender Diversity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 895–917.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of the … economies and lives” of Thai citizens from all walks of life (99). More generally, the heightened visibility of gay men, tom s (short for tomboys; masculine women involved in same-sex relations with other women), and kathoey (feminized phenotypic males) in shopping malls symbolizes the twin excesses...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 975–995.
Published: 01 November 2021
... who act in masculine ways and are primarily attracted to women, especially feminine-acting women, or di (ดี้). For more on homosexuality and masculinity among women in Thailand, see Sinnott ( 2004 ). I maintain the English spelling of tom to make its connection to the English word “tomboy” clearer...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 855–879.
Published: 01 August 2008
... is unwavering in her chastity and devotion. 8 Her abrupt transformation from excitable tomboy to determined mother after a brief marriage to a man several years her senior is accepted as natural in the text. This traumatic thrusting into adulthood through early marriage and childbirth was a common experience...