Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1: Gender on the Edge Identities, Politics, Transformations 1
4. Part I: Historical Transformations
5. Chapter 2: Queer History and Its Discontents at Tahiti The Contested Politics of Modernity and Sexual Subjectivity 33
6. Chapter 3: “Hollywood” and the Emergence of a Fa‘afafine Social Movement in Samoa, 1960–1980 56
7. Chapter 4: Representing Fa‘afafine Sex, Socialization, and Gender Identity in Samoa 73
8. Part II: Performing Gender
9. Chapter 5: Living as and Living with Māhū and Raerae Geopolitics, Sex, and Gender in the Society Islands 93
10. Chapter 6: Transgender in Samoa The Cultural Production of Gender Inequality 115
11. Chapter 7: Re-Visioning Family Māhūwahine and Male-to-Female Transgender in Contemporary Hawai‘i 135
12. Chapter 8: Men Trapped in Women’s Clothing Homosexuality, Cross-Dressing, and Masculinity in Fiji 162
13. Chapter 9: Two Sea Turtles Intimacy between Men in the Marshall Islands 184
14. Part III: Politics of the Global
15. Chapter 10: The Fokisi and the Fakaleitī Provocative Performances in Tonga 213
16. Chapter 11: Televisual Transgender Hybridizing the Mainstream in Pasifika New Zealand 241
17. Chapter 12: Same Sex, Different Armies Sexual Minority Invisibility among Fijians in the Fiji Military Forces and British Army 266
18. Chapter 13: In Sickness and in Health Evolving Trends in Gay Rights Advocacy in Fiji 293
19. Chapter 14: On the Edge of Understanding Non-Heteronormative Sexuality in Papua New Guinea 323
20. Chapter 15: Outwith the Law in Samoa and Tonga 347
21. Notes on Contributors 371
22. Index 375