PUBLICATIONS
2012b Evelyn Blackwood and Mark Johnson. Queer Asian subjects: Transgressive sexualities and heteronormative meanings. Asian Studies Review 36(4):441-451.
2009 Trans identities and contingent masculinities: Being tombois in everyday practice. Feminist Studies 35(3): 454-480.
2008 Transnational discourse and circuits of queer knowledge in Indonesia. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14(4): 481-507.
2007 Regulation of sexuality in Indonesian discourse: Normative gender, criminal law and shifting strategies of control. Culture, Health and Sexuality 9(3): 293-307.
2005a Gender transgression in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. Journal of Asian Studies 64(4): 849-879.
2005b Transnational sexualities in one place: Indonesian readings. Gender & Society 19(2): 221-242.
2005c Wedding bell blues: Marriage, missing men, and matrifocal follies. American Ethnologist 32(1): 3-45. [Featured article with commentary and rejoinder.]
2001 Representing women: The politics of Minangkabau adat writing. Journal of Asian Studies 60(1):125-149
2000 Culture and women’s sexualities. Journal of Social Issues 56(2): 223-238.
1999 Big houses and small houses: Doing matriliny in West Sumatra. Ethnos 64(1): 32-56.
1998 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing masculinity and erotic desire. Cultural Anthropology 13(4): 491-521.
1997 Women, land and labor: Negotiating clientage and kinship in a Minangkabau peasant community. Ethnology 36(4): 277-293.
1985 Breaking the mirror: The construction of lesbianism and the anthropological discourse on homosexuality. Journal of Homosexuality 11(3/4): 1-17.
1984 Sexuality and gender in certain Native American tribes: The case of cross-gender females. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10(1):27-42.
2017 Cultural Anthropology: Mapping Cultures across Time and Space. Janice E. Stockard and Evelyn Blackwood. San Francisco: Cengage Publishers.
2010 Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2007 Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood and Abha Bhaiya, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2000 Webs of Power: Women, Kin and Community in a Sumatran Village. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
1999 Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures. Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa, eds. New York: Columbia University Press.
1986 Editor, The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior. New York: Harrington Press. Originally published in a special issue of Journal of Homosexuality 11 (3/4).
Books
Book Chapters (selected)
2015 Lesbian subjectivities: Butch, femme and andro from the New Order to Reformasi Era Indonesia. In Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations, Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies, eds., pp. 220-233. Routledge.
2014 Language and non-normative gender and sexuality in Indonesia. In Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language,Gender, and Sexuality. Lal Zimman, Jenny L. Davis, and Josh Raclaw, eds., pp. 81- 100. Oxford University Press.
2012 Ryan Plis and Evelyn Blackwood. Trans technologies and identities in the United States. In Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health. Lenore Manderson, ed., pp. 185-204. New York: Routledge.
2011 (Trans)gender: Tomboi embodiment. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Bodies/Embodiment. Fran Mascia-Lees, ed. Blackwell Publishing.
2010 “Lesbians,” modernity and global translation: Female sexualities in Indonesia. In Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights. Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker, eds., pp. 69-76. London: Routledge.
2008 Not your average housewife: Minangkabau women rice farmers in West Sumatra. In Women and Work in Indonesia. Michele Ford and Lyn Parker, eds., pp. 17-40. New York: Routledge.
2007a Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa. Globalization, sexuality and silences: Women’s sexualities and masculinities in an Asian context. In Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood and Abha Bhaiya, eds., pp. 1-20. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2007b Transnational sexualities in one place: Indonesian readings. In Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood and Abha Bhaiya, eds., pp. 181-199. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2006 Mothers to daughters: Social change and matrilineal kinship in a Minangkabau village. In Globalization and Change in Fifteen Cultures: Born in One World, Living in Another. George Spindler and Janice E. Stockard, eds., pp. 117-143. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
2003 Woman-headed households in agrarian societies: Not just a passing phase. In Gender at Work in Economic Life. Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs, vol. 20. Gracia Clark, ed., pp. 41-59. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
2002 Reading sexuality across cultures: Anthropology and theories of sexuality. In Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. Ellen Lewin and William Leap, eds., pp. 69-92. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
1999a Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa. Sapphic Shadows: Challenging the silence in the study of sexuality. In Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures, Evelyng Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa, eds., pp. 39-63. New York: Columbia University Press.
1999b Saskia Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood. Introduction. In Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures, Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia E. Wieringa, eds., pp. 1-38. New York: Columbia University Press.
1997 Native American genders and sexualities: Beyond anthropological models and misrepresentations. In Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality and Spirituality. Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas and Sabine Lang, eds., pp. 284-294. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
1996 Cross-cultural lesbian studies: Problems and possibilities. In The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty- First Century. Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni McNaron, eds., pp. 194-200. New York: The Feminist Press.
1995a Falling in love with an-other lesbian: Reflections on identity in fieldwork. In Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork, D. Kulick and M. Willson, eds., pp. 51-75. New York: Routledge Press.
1995b Senior women, model mothers and dutiful wives: Managing gender contradictions in a Minangkabau village. In Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia, A. Ong and M. Peletz, eds., pp. 124-158. Berkeley: University of California Press.