Male Bodies, Women's Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth (Human Sexuality)

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 mathod, storeis in the words of these "second type of women" to analyze these transgendered experiences. This previously ignored perspective of teh 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.