Introduction / Saskia E. Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood
Sapphic shadows: challenging the silence in the study of sexuality / Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa
The politics of identities and languages: lesbian desire in ancient and modern India / Giti Thadani
Lesbians, men-women, and two-spirits: homosexuality and gender in Native American cultures / Sabine Lang
"What's identity got to do with it?" rethinking identity in light of the Mati work in Suriname / Gloria Wekker
Let them take ecstasy: class and Jakarta lesbians / Alison J. Murray
Women in Lesotho and the (western) construction of homophobia / Kendall
Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity and erotic desire / Evelyn Blackwood
Desiring bodies or defiant cultures: butch-femme lesbians in Jakarta and Lima / Saskia E. Wieringa
Negotiating transnational sexual economies: female Māhū and same-sex sexuality in "Tahiti and her islands" / Deborah A. Elliston
How homosexuality became "un-African": the case of Zimbabwe / Margrete Aarmo
Women's Sexuality and the discourse on Asian values: cross-dressing in Malaysia / Tan beng hui
Sexual preference, the ugly duckling of feminist demands: the lesbian movement in Mexico / Norma Mogrovejo.