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M.  \nPublication date  \n2018  \nDocument Version  \nOther version  \nLicense  \nOther  \nLink to publication  \nCitation for published version (APA):  \nTaqueban, E. M. (2018) . Lipstick tales: Beauty and precarity in a southern Philippine boomtown. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam] .  \nGeneral rights  \nIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons) .  \nDisclaimer/Complaints regulations  \nIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: [https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact](https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact), or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, P.O. Box 19185 , 1000 GD Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible.  \nUvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam ( [http](https://dare. uva. nl)[s](https://dare. uva. nl)[://dare. uva. nl](https://dare. uva. nl))  \nDownload date:27 Aug 2026  \nChapter 3  \nBeing Les:  \nReimagining Masculinity and Femininity through BodyWork  \nTrue to her promise, Ellie introduces me to her les friends. One of themis Junie, who she grew up and went to school with.“We never became a‘thing.’ We were not each other’s type,” she confides, laughing. Junie is 19 years old and a self-identified les (a term commonly used by young lesbiansin the city to refer to themselves). Hanging out in the city’s newest mall, she tells me:  \nI don’t know why but there’s more and more young les in the city. Here you generally see two kinds of les, the hard and the soft. But every les is really different. Everyone is unique. We all have different ways and styles.  \nAlthough Junie uses the binary categories “soft” and “hard,” she also hints at the various gendered subjectivities and “styles” available to her peers. Junie is not the tomboy of Filipino lore, a cross-dressing masculinebodied woman attracted to feminine women (Ofreneo 2003) . For one, Junie does not embody masculinity. She often wears girl shorts and short skirts, styles her long hair, and wears lipstick. She has always “fashioned”herself this way, she tells me. Junie’s feminine body confronts dominant and traditional notions of being a tomboy in the Philippines.  \nVarious studies on the cultural construction of the tomboy have focused on subjective experiences of the body. In her study set in west Sumatra, Blackwood (1998) argues that being tombois is not about acting like men, as masculinity is perceived to be deeply rooted in their bodies. Tombois are “female-bodied individuals who lay claim to the social category ‘man.’” Blackwood proposes that social meanings are learned and embodied (2009: 461). In Jolo in the southern Philippines, Johnson (2005) presents tombois as asserting that they are like men rather than being men. His informants “did not express any sense of being a man  \nCHAPTER 3  \n‘trapped in the wrong body’”(2005: 89). Luzatto and Gvion’s (2007) study in Israel similarly finds young lesbians following more flexible body codes, differentiating themselves from straight women and older generations of lesbians by “constructing a body that refuses to completely assimilate into a lesbian culture”(2007: 38) .  \nIn studying the lives of young les in Cagayan de Oro, their body practices—especially their use of cosmetics—serve as a reference for their “being in the world”(Heidegger 1962; Young 2005: 9). The inquiry begins with accounts of body work among young les—the produ","cbCaile4uGO7zRNF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaile4uGO7zRNF","pdf",3935497,35,"English","# Being Les\n## Reimagining Masculinity and Femininity through BodyWork\n## Ethnographic fieldwork and participant profile\n## Cities, space, and mobility frameworks","[{\"question\":\"What does “body work” mean for young lesbians in Cagayan de Oro in this chapter?\",\"answer\":\"It refers to the practices through which young lesbians use products and appearance practices, particularly cosmetics, to cultivate their desired “being in the world.”\"},{\"question\":\"How does the chapter use the “soft” and “hard” categories?\",\"answer\":\"It treats them as binary terms used by peers while also showing that real gendered identities and styles are more varied and not fully captured by the categories.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does mobility play in the inquiry described here?\",\"answer\":\"Mobility explains both spatial movement to the city and the ability to access networks and flows, as well as aspirations to new futures.\"}]","Lipstick tales - Beauty and precarity in a southern Philippine boomtown - Chapter 3 - Reimagining Masculinity and Femininity through BodyWork | PDF",88]