Chapter 1 Globalization, Sexuality, and Silences: Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in an Asian Context

Chapter 2 Chapter Two Silence, Sin, and the System: Women’s Same-Sex Practices in Japan

Chapter 3 Desire and Deviance in Classical Indian Philosophy: A Study of Female Masculinity and Male Femininity in the Tamil Folk Legend Alliyarasanimalai

Chapter 4 Chapter Four The Spring That Flowers between Women

Chapter 5 Performing Gender along the Lesbian Continuum: The Politics of Sexual Identity in the Seitô Society

Chapter 7 Gender Subjectivity: Dees and Toms in Thailand

Chapter 8 Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinities in Bugis South Sulawesi

Chapter 9 Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong

Chapter 10 Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings

Chapter 11 Flames of Fire: Expressions and Denial of Female Sexuality

Chapter 12 Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan

Chapter 13 “She Has Come from the World of the Spirits …”: Life Stories of Working-Class Lesbian Women in Northern India