Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- One: Globalization, Sexuality, and Silences: Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in an Asian Context -- Part I Historical Legacies -- Two: Silence, Sin, and the System: Women's Same-Sex Practices in Japan -- Three: Desire and Deviance in Classical Indian Philosophy: A Study of Female Masculinity and Male Femininity in the Tamil Folk Legend Alliyarasanimalai -- Part II Conditional Subjectivities -- Four: The Spring That Flowers between Women -- Five: Performing Gender along the Lesbian Continuum: The Politics of Sexual Identity in the Seitô Society -- Six: "But no one has explained to me who I am now . . .": "Trans" Self-Perceptions in Sri Lanka -- Part III Female Masculinities -- Seven: Gender Subjectivity: Dees and Toms in Thailand -- Eight: Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinities in Bugis South Sulawesi -- Nine: Lesbian Masculinities: Identity and Body Construction among Tomboys in Hong Kong -- Ten: Transnational Sexualities in One Place: Indonesian Readings -- Part IV Silencing and Modes of Invisibility -- Eleven: Flames of Fire: Expressions and Denial of Female Sexuality -- Twelve: Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan -- Thirteen: "She Has Come from the World of the Spirits . . .": Life Stories of Working-Class Lesbian Women in Northern India -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.