This title looks at the new sexual reality in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe after the fall of communism. Handy tables and figures make the information easy to access and understand.

Candid, first-hand accounts of couples who stay together despite highly emotional gender issues.

Head Over Heels gives voice to thirty ordinary women who live extraordinary lives as partners to crossdressers, transgenderists, and male-to-female transsexuals. These unique women discuss, with honesty and great candor, how they first learned of their partners' gender issues, how they've coped with the emotions that followed, how they've dealt with concerns about privacy/secrecy, and how they've handled disclosure to children, friends, and family members. Far from a collection...

Get a detailed look at the Thai sex/gender system--through analysis of the personal stories from transgendered youth in Thailand

The Thai term sao braphet song (a "second type of woman") describes males who reject the gender of masculinity for femininity. Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth uses the narrative method, stories in the words of these "second type of women" to analyze these transgendered experiences. This previously ignored perspective of the Thai sex/gender system gained through this theoretical and methodological...

Tongzhi explores the world of same-sex relationships and their varied characteristics in Chinese culture. Using traditional Chinese history (of same-sex eroticism) as a basis for discussion, this book examines the evolution of same-sex relationships; the conflicts and pressures faced by Tongzhi; the past influence of colonialism and present influence of the "western" world; and the profound importance of the family-kinship system. Undergraduate and graduate students, academics, and professionals in the fields of Chinese culture, sociology, and lesbian/gay studies will find this book useful.