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.
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