Get a close examine the Thai sex/gender system—through research of the non-public tales from transgendered adolescence in Thailand

The Thai time period sao braphet track (a “second kind of woman”) describes men who reject the gender of masculinity for femininity. Male our bodies, Women’s Souls: own Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered formative years makes use of the narrative approach, tales within the phrases of those “second form of girls” to investigate those transgendered studies. This formerly neglected point of view of the Thai sex/gender method received via this theoretical and methodological method bargains scholars and common readers a wealthy, extra without difficulty obtainable beginning of data approximately gendered subjectivity and sex/gender systems.

Male our bodies, Women’s Souls: own Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered adolescence positive factors in-depth, autobiographical existence histories from person Thai transgendered formative years. existence tales, advised within the individuals’ personal phrases, presents an enticing, now and then touching, regularly insightful examine Thai culture’s sex/gender method. The authors then expertly study the narratives to light up universal topics and buildings inside of this staff, permitting a chance for distinction and dialogue on transgender studies in different international locations.

Male our bodies, Women’s Souls: own Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered early life analyzes the key issues within the tales, including:

• identities
• definitions and descriptive labels
• etiologies of sao braphet song-ness
• the inspiration of acceptance
• narrator motivations for partaking within the project

Male our bodies, Women’s Souls: own Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered formative years is illuminating, reflective analyzing for educators, undergraduate scholars, graduate scholars, researchers, or a person drawn to researching extra approximately transgenderism in a selected cultural context.