Male Bodies, Women's Souls : Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth
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Get a detailed look at the Thai sex/gender system—through analysis of the personal stories from transgendered youth in ThailandThe 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 projectMale 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.
ForewordAcknowledgementsNote on Thai TranscriptionChapter 1 IntroductionThe ProjectPositioning the Researchers and Project GoalsWhy "Personal Narrative?"Organization of the BookChapter 2 Gender and Sexuality in ThailandWhat is "Thai"?Ideologies of Gender and SexualityAlternative Genders and SexualitiesKathoey: Semantics and IdentitiesCreation StoriesTravelers' TalesReligious Ritual in Northern ThailandKathoey in the Thai Mass MediaWestern Academic Research on KathoeyVoices of Sao Braphet SongChapter 3 Narrative MethodologiesWhy Use the Narrative Method?Narratives are UniversalNarratives Reveal (Gendered) SubjectivitiesNarratives Reveal Processes of Agency and Cultural ContestationNarratives Reveal Human TransformationNarratives Offer Advocacy and a Connection to OthersTranslation and RepresentationChapter 4 Sao Braphet Song NarrativesThe SettingPersonal NarrativesEssays about RosepaperChapter 5 Analyzing Sao Braphet Song NarrativesOur Analytical ApproachIdentitiesDefinitions and Descriptive LabelsEtiologiesAcceptanceMotivations for Participating in the ProjectWhere to Go From HereNotesReferences
