Toms and dees : transgender identity and female same-sex relationships in Thailand

Author

Sinnott, Megan.

Title

Toms and dees : transgender identity and female same-sex relationships in Thailand / Megan J. Sinnott.

Format

Book

Published

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2004.

Description

x, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

URL

<Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy046/2004004668.html

Series

Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-258) and index.
Paperback.

Contents

• Global sex
• Gender and sexual transitions
• Gender ambivalence in tom and dee identities
• Thai norms of gender and sexuality
• Gender dynamics between toms and dees : subversion or conformity?
• Anjaree and Lesla : tom and dee communities and organizations
• Discourses of "homosexuality," : the state and the media in Thailand.

Kinsey subjects

Homosexuality--Female--Thailand.
Homosexuality research--Female--Thailand.
Transsexualism.
Gender role identification--Female--Thailand.
Homosexual life styles--Female--Thailand.
Homosexuals sex behavior--Female.

Subject headings

Thailand--Social life and customs.

ISBN

0824827414 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780824827410 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0824828526 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780824828523 (pbk. : alk. paper)