Major Influences on Professional Life:
Colleagues
Subfields of Interest within Anthropology:
Gender, Kinship, Southeast Asia, Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Interests within G/L/B/T/Q Anthropology:
Lesbian studies (primarily outside the "West"), transgender identities, Two-Spirit People
Regions of specialization and Languages:
Southeast Asia/Indonesia; Indonesian
Major Publications:
"Transnational
sexualities in one place: Indonesian readings." Gender & Society 19(2):
221-242. 2005
"Wedding
bell blues: Marriage, missing men, and matrifocal
follies."
American Ethnologist 32(1): 3-19.
"Rejoinder:
The specter of the Patriarchal Man."
American Ethnologist
32(1): 42-45. 2005
"Reading
Sexuality Across Cultures: Anthropology and
Theories of Sexuality." Out in Theory: Lesbians, Gays, Culture. Ellen
Lewin and William Leap, eds. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 2003.
"Culture
and women's sexualities." Journal of Social
Issues 56(2):
223-238. 2000.
Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Winner, Ruth Benedict Prize, 1999.
"Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing masculinity and erotic desire." Cultural Anthropology: 13(4): 491-521, 1998
"Native American genders and sexualities: Beyond anthropological models and misrepresentations." In Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality. Sue Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang, eds., pp. 284-294. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1997.
The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior. New York: Harrington Park Press. Originally published as Journal of Homosexuality 11(3/4), 1986 .
Other Relevant Information (Current research, interests, goals):
I am planning to do further research on tombois in West Sumatra.
Forthcoming Publications:
"Gender
transgression in colonial and post-colonial
Indonesia." Journal
of Asian Studies. Forthcoming 2005.
