- Beyond Gender: Indigenous Perspectives, Fa’afafine and Fa’afatama
The book is written by and edited by fa`afafine, Dan Taulapapa McMullin and Yuki Kihara, and includes personal stories that cross lines of gender, culture, professions and geography
- Migrating genders: westernisation, migration, and Samoan faafafine . . .
This thesis is an investigation of how fa’afafine identities are constructed, maintained, and changed in the contexts of contemporary Samoa and New Zealand Fa’afafine are biological Samoan males who, to varying degrees, enact feminised gender identities
- Education, Gender and Fa aSamoa: the Samoan Way of Doing Things
Within fa aSamoa, expectations and roles of individuals and groups within families and villages are determined by factors including locality, holder of title (matai), age and gender
- Upholding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rights in Samoa
Fa’afafine have been part of Samoan society for a long time and are generally tolerated in families and society, but still face discrimination in various areas including health, education, employment and law enforcement
- Pacific Perspectives: Fa’afafine and Fakaleiti in Samoa and Tonga . . .
This paper considers some of the challenges posed by groups of people in the Pacific countries of Samoa and Tonga A variety of labels may be used to describe such people: transgender; gender-liminal; transvestite; gay, but none fully encompass what it is to be fa’afafine or fakaleiti
- Saili Le Tofa: A Search for New Wisdom” Sexuality and Fa’afafine in the . . .
This study is a theological and cultural analysis of sexuality and fa'afafine (effeminate male, third gender) in the Samoan context Specifically, the study focuses on sexuality in Samoa through the lens of social justice
- Migrating genders: westernisation, migration, and Samoan faafafine
This thesis is an investigation of how fa’afafine identities are constructed, maintained, and changed in the contexts of contemporary Samoa and New Zealand Fa’afafine are biological Samoan males who, to varying degrees, enact feminised gender identities
- FA’AFAFINE IN SAMOAN CONTEXTS - Saili Le Tofa: A Search . . . - 1Library
In Samoa, this firm grip on regulating love does more harm to the church holistically because it diminishes not only the value of third gender people directly or indirectly, it also creates a rift between people who otherwise see themselves culturally connected without bias
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