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Term
What is a travesti?
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The idea that gender has a powerful
Men who orchestrate their
influence in the runnings of society;
bodies to appear more
society is ultimately moulded by
effeminate but have no desire
gender ideas.
to actually genitally transition
into women
Evelyn Blackwood
Because they were considered to be
attracted to the masculine traits of Who gives and who receives during
the tombois rather than their biology, sex. Give = man, receive = non-man
hence not being labelled as gay
, 2 of 19
Definition
Tombois in West Sumatra (Indonesia)
What are the 3 lenses that What are the 2 genders in travesti
anthropologists use to study gender? culture?
What did Evelyn Blackwood do What 2 things do travesti's inject their
her ethnography on? bodies with?
3 of 19
Term
Why weren't the non-tombois women who had relationships with the
tombois not considered to be lesbians?
Give this one a try later!
Term
What is a travesti?
Give this one a try later!
The idea that gender has a powerful
Men who orchestrate their
influence in the runnings of society;
bodies to appear more
society is ultimately moulded by
effeminate but have no desire
gender ideas.
to actually genitally transition
into women
Evelyn Blackwood
Because they were considered to be
attracted to the masculine traits of Who gives and who receives during
the tombois rather than their biology, sex. Give = man, receive = non-man
hence not being labelled as gay
, 2 of 19
Definition
Tombois in West Sumatra (Indonesia)
What are the 3 lenses that What are the 2 genders in travesti
anthropologists use to study gender? culture?
What did Evelyn Blackwood do What 2 things do travesti's inject their
her ethnography on? bodies with?
3 of 19
Term
Why weren't the non-tombois women who had relationships with the
tombois not considered to be lesbians?
Give this one a try later!
