Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand

ISBN-13: 9781560231196 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 238 str.

Gerard Sullivan; Peter A. Jackson

Opis

This book explores Thailand's diverse sexual population, including male sex workers, 'toms' - masculine Thai lesbians - 'dees' - feminine-identified women who have relations with other women, and 'kathoeys' or 'lady boys' (transsexual or transvestite males).

Spis treści

Contents
Foreword

• A Panoply of Roles: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Contemporary Thailand
• Same-Sex Sexual Experience in Thailand
• HIV/AIDS Projects with and for Gay Men in Northern Thailand
• Increasingly Gay Self-Representations of Male-Male Sexual Experiences in Thailand
•  Masculinity and Tom (ital) Identity in Thailand
•  Transformations of Transgender: The Case of the Thai Kathoey (ital)
• Rehearsing Gender and Sexuality in Modern Thailand: Masculinity and Male-Male Sex Behaviors
•  The Friends Thou Hast: Support Systems for Male Commercial Sex Workers in Pattaya, Thailand
• Between Money, Morality and Masculinity: The Dynamics of Bar-Based Male Sex Work in Chiang Mai
• About the Contributors
•  Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Peter A Jackson, Gerard Sullivan