Anderst, Ania and McMillan, Karen and Gorman, Hilary and O’Connor, Michelle and Worth, Heather (2022) When they do that kind of bad things to me, I feel that they encourage me to be strong and be who I am’: How transfeminine people in Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands experience discrimination, acceptance and a sense of place. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 24 (3). pp. 421-436. ISSN 1369-1058
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Abstract
Data on transfeminine participants from a 2016 Pacific Multi-Country Mapping and Behavioural Study evidence high levels of verbal, physical and sexual abuse, as well as discrimination. In interviews from the same study, accounts of hardship were frequently countered with assertions of happiness and talk of acceptance. This paper analyses these accounts and, in particular, the ways in which interviewees viewed and managed their place in society. Data provide insights into the factors that support transfeminine occupation of a positive place in some contemporary Pacific settings, highlighting negotiation between modern and traditional, and local and global, cultures and values.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Office of the DVC (ARC) > Cook Island Campus |
| Depositing User: | Debi Futter-Puati |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2023 23:01 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2023 23:01 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14149 |
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