GLOBALISATION, LOVE, INTIMACY AND SILENCE IN A WORKING CLASS BUTCH/FEM COMMUNITY IN JAKARTA

Saskia Wieringa

ASSR-WP0508
Abstract

This paper explores the dynamics of a butch-femme community in jakarta, Indonesia, focussing on the ways in which they are linked to the emerging global discourses on gay/lesbian and queer politics. It argues that the locality in which this community moves, with its` historical and culturally specific codes of silences and speaking determines the ways in which they relate to the emerging global discourses of love and same sex`desires. Class and age are other important mediating factors.

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