Title: Navigating identity, ethnicity and politics a case study of gender variance in the Central Highlands of VietnamAuthors:
Nguyen, H.T.Keywords: Bahnar;ethnicity;Gender nonconformity;masculinity;politics;VietnamIssue Date: 2016Publisher: RoutledgeCitation: ScopusAbstract: Based
on ethnographic data collected among the Bahnar ethnic group in the
Central Highlands of Vietnam, I discuss the lived experiences of
masculine performing people (assigned female at birth) whose gender
characteristics blur the boundaries between lesbian and transgender. In
reviewing non-normative gender practices in supernatural rituals in
Southeast Asia and in Vietnam I explore the links between these
practices and present-day terminology and discourses relating to the
complexities of gender and sexual diversity in the secular realm. I also
discuss the disclosure experiences of these people, their vulnerability
to social discrimination and draw attention to the nuances of
contingent masculinities…
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