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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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Organizers: Susan C Dewey (University of Wyoming) and Tiantian Zheng (SUNY Cortland)

Chairs: Susan C Dewey (University of Wyoming) and Tiantian Zheng (SUNY Cortland)

Discussants: Hulya Demirdirek PhD (University of Victoria) and Yasmina L Katsulis (ASU)

08:00

Transgender, Shifting Morality, and the Bifocality of Culture In Tonga

Niko Besnier (University of Amsterdam)

08:15

Shifting Subjectivities, Embodied Contestations, and the Legal Constitution of Transgender In the United States

Marieke van Eijk (University of Amsterdam)

08:30

Too Many Strikes If You’re Out: An Ethnography of Transgender Homelessness In Phoenix, Arizona

Joseph X Canarie (Arizona State University)

08:45

Shifting Identities of Self-Identified Gay Men In Postsocialist China

Tiantian Zheng (SUNY Cortland)

09:00

Hanging Together, Hanging Separately, or Hanging Out: Ambivalently "Gay" Identities Among Czech and American Men Who Have Sex with Men

Timothy McCajor Hall (UCLA)

09:15

’What Is It about Brazilian Women?’ the Manipulation of ‘Brazilianess’ As a Commercial and Affective Strategy In Relationships with Foreigners

Ana Paula Da Silva (Universidade de São Paulo and University of São Paulo) and Thaddeus G Blanchette (University of Rio de Janeiro)

09:30

Discussant

Yasmina L Katsulis (ASU)

09:45

Break

10:00

'i Am Faithful to All My Partners: The Fijian Self, Other and Intimate Partner of HIV and STD Transmission Risks

Lawrence J Hammar (Independent Scholar and Researcher)

10:15

Discourses and Performances of Minority Ethnicity Amongst Indo-Fijian Market Traders

Susan C Dewey (University of Wyoming)

10:30

As Birthing Nations Gives Way to Individual Responsibility: Neoliberal Motherhood In Mexico

Dawn T Pankonien (Northwestern University)

10:45

The Management of Multiple Selves: Surveillance, Creativity, and the Work of Identity Formation Among Women In the Sex Trade In London, Ontario

Treena R Orchard (University of Western Ontario)

11:00

Valuable Workers, Valuable Men: Gender Strategies of Rural Migrant Men In Southwest China

Xia Zhang (University of Minnesota, Morris)

11:15

“the Personal Is Political?”: Rethinking Men and “Marginality” Under Neoliberal Japan

Nana Okura Gagne (I.E.S.)

11:30

Discussant

Hulya Demirdirek PhD (University of Victoria)

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