Male Bodies, Women's Souls : Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth

ISBN-13: 9780789031143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str.

LeeRay M. Costa

Opis

This previously ignored perspective of the Thai sex/gender system gained through this theoretical and methodological approach offers students and general readers an accessible foundation of knowledge about gendered subjectivity and sex/gender systems.

Spis treści

• Foreword (Anne Bolin)
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Thai Transcription
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• The Project
• Positioning the Researchers and Project Goals
• Why “Personal Narrative”?
• Organization of the Book
• Chapter 2: Gender and Sexuality in Thailand
• What is “Thai”?
• Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality
• Alternative Genders and Sexualities
• Kathoey: Semantics and Identities
• Religious Ritual in Northern Thailand
• Kathoey in the Thai Mass Media
• Western Academic Research on Kathoey
• Voices of Sao Braphet Song
• Chapter 3: Narrative Methodologies
• Why Use the Narrative Method?
• Translation and Representation
• Chapter 4: Sao Braphet Song Narratives
• The Setting
• Personal Narratives
• Essays About Rosepaper
• Chapter 5: Analyzing Sao Braphet Song Narratives
• Our Analytical Approach
• Identities
• Definitions and Descriptive Labels
• Etiologies
• Acceptance
• Motivations for Participating in the Project
• Where to Go From Here
• Notes
• References

O autorze

LeeRar Costa (Author)