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Male Bodies, Women's Souls - Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth (Hardcover)
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Male Bodies, Women's Souls - Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth (Hardcover)
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Get a detailed look at the Thai sex/gender systemthrough 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 approach offers
students and general readers a rich, more readily accessible
foundation of knowledge about gendered subjectivity and sex/gender
systems. Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of
Thailand's Transgendered Youth features in-depth, autobiographical
life histories from individual Thai transgendered youth. Life
stories, told in the participants' own words, provides an engaging,
at times touching, always insightful look at Thai culture's
sex/gender system. The authors then expertly analyze the narratives
to illuminate common themes and constructions within this group,
allowing an opportunity for contrast and discussion on transgender
experiences in other nations. Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal
Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth analyzes the major
themes in the stories, including: identities definitions and
descriptive labels etiologies of sao braphet song-ness the notion
of acceptance narrator motivations for participating in the project
Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand's
Transgendered Youth is illuminating, reflective reading for
educators, undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers,
or anyone interested in discovering more about transgenderism in a
specific cultural context.
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