Abstract
Review of the book Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires, by Francisca Yuenki Lai.
Highlights
Maid to Queer: Asian labor migration and female same-sex desires is an ethnographic study of the economic, social and sexual complexities underpinning the making of female same-sex relationships among Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong
As a disciple of the anthropologist Evelyn Blackwood whose work on tomboi subjectivity in West Sumatra has inspired many in sex/gender studies, Lai carries on Blackwood’s interest in the distinctiveness of Indonesian same-sex female identities and complicates them further by focusing on the case of migrant workers
To research for this book, Dr Lai engaged in 21 months of fieldwork in Hong Kong, immersing herself in the Sunday life of Indonesian migrant workers in parks, beaches, malls, food venues, and monthly rental rooms
Summary
Maid to Queer: Asian labor migration and female same-sex desires is an ethnographic study of the economic, social and sexual complexities underpinning the making of female same-sex relationships among Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires
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