Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire

Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 232-260

  Blackwood, Evelyn ^a  

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Author keywords

Erotic desire; Masculinity; Sexuality; Tombois; West Sumatra

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EID: 84889343609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470775981.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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