Toms and Dees : Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand / Megan J. Sinnott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinnott, Megan, author.

Series:

Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.

Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex customs--Thailand.

Sex customs.

Gender identity--Thailand.

Gender identity.

Women--Sexual behavior--Thailand.

Women.

Women--Thailand--Identity.

Trans people--Thailand--Identity.

Trans people.

Lesbians--Thailand--Identity.

Lesbians.

Thailand--Social life and customs.

Thailand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 261 pages.) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Global Sex

Chapter 2. Gender and Sexual Transitions

Chapter 3. Gender Ambivalence in Tom and Dee Identities

Chapter 4 Thai Norms of Gender and Sexuality

Chapter 5. Gender Dynamics between Toms and Dees: Subversion or Conformity?

Chapter 6. Anjaree and Lesla: Tom and Dee Communities and Organizations

Chapter 7. Discourses of "Homosexuality": The State and the Media in Thailand

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

about the author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824865221 (electronic book)

9780824865221

0824865227

OCLC:

875895198