She is author of Webs of Power: Women, Kin and Community in a Sumatran Village (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and editor of the classic collection The Many Faces of Homosexuality (Harrington Park Press, 1986). She co-edited Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices across Cultures (Columbia University Press, 1999) and Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). Her many publications argue for sharper analyses of the categories and experiences of gender and sexuality in daily life. She is completing work on a full-length monograph on tombois and their girlfriends in West Sumatra, Indonesia; her keynote address draws on material from this monograph. See more about Professor Blackwood at http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~blackwoo/.