Introduction. Inhabiting Public Space -- Banci: Before Waria -- Jakarta, 1968 -- The Perfect Woman -- The Beauty Experts -- National Glamor -- Conclusion. Making Up the State.
Summary
"A history of transgender femininity in New Order (1965-1998) Indonesia, contending that waria, one of Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern "public" through their relationship to technology"-- Provided by publisher.