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Toms and Dees - Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand

English · Hardback

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Klappentext A vibrant! growing! and highly visible set of female identities has emerged in Thailand known as tom and dee. A "tom" (from "tomboy") refers to a masculine woman who is sexually involved with a feminine partner! or "dee" (from "lady"). The patterning of female same-sex relationships into masculine and feminine pairs! coupled with the use of English-derived terms to refer to them! is found throughout East And Southeast Asia. Have the forces of capitalism facilitated the dissemination of Western-style gay and lesbian identities throughout the developing world as some theories of transnationalism suggest? Is the emergence of toms and dees over the past twenty-five years a sign that this has occurred in Thailand? Megan Sinnott engages these issues by examining the local culture and historical context of female same-sex eroticism and female masculinity in Thailand. Drawing on a broad spectrum of anthropological literature! Sinnott situates Thai tom and dee subculture within the global trend of increasingly hybridized sexual and gender identities. Zusammenfassung Have the forces of capitalism facilitated the dissemination of Western-style gay and lesbian identities throughout the developing world as some theories of transnationalism suggest? Megan Sinnott engages these issues by examining the local culture and historical context of female same-sex eroticism and female masculinity in Thailand.

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Authors Megan Sinnott, Megan J Sinnott, Megan J. Sinnott
Publisher University of hawaii press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.07.2004
 
EAN 9780824827410
ISBN 978-0-8248-2741-0
No. of pages 261
Dimensions 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
Series Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean
Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean
Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

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