The institution of berdache in aboriginal North America is a relatively well-known phenomena among social scientists, yet a thorough, comprehensive investigation of the institution is lacking. In general, it involved a socially recognized means by which an individual might assume the dress, role, and status of the opposite sex. In this paper, the institution of…
Despite the prominence of poverty in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, two-spirit, and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ2S+) in Canada, studies that centre the material conditions of these groups as sites of inquiry remain scant. Accordingly, in this paper we present an intersectional narrative review of the limited Canadian literature on LGBTQ2S+ poverty. We…
Depictions of servile and hypersexual transwomen have come to reinforce Thailand’s reputation as an exotic and erotic playground. Despite their almost ubiquitious presence in tourist spaces, the theorization of transgender subjectivities from a localized Asian perspective tends to be glossed over in the literature on leisure and recreation, perhaps due to their complex position within…
In Thailand, genderscapes, or the terrain of gender and sexuality, continue to evolve quickly, with male-to-female transgenderisms and effeminate gay identities proliferating alongside masculine ones. The previous coding of kathoey in popular discourse as being traditional is shifting to one that identifies ‘‘kathoeyness’’, or male effeminacy, with modernity. Recent incidents point to a discursive shift…
One of the most productive points of contact between feminist scholarship and poststructural thought has been their mutual interest in sexuality and the body.’ From both feminist and poststructuralist perspectives, sexuality has increasingly come to be seen not as biological but as a cultural construction, subject to fashioning and redefinition under pressure from social forces…
In the 1860s, with an innovative theory of the origin of homosexuality that saw it as neither a sin nor a sickness, the German lawyer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs became an outspoken defender of its practice. This paper describes the theory, placing it historically in the context of Ulrichs’ life, and shows why, although progressive for…
Book review of “Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History” by Gilbert Herdt
Germany is to become the first nation in Europe to legally recognise intersex babies, allowing parents to leave the male and female designation of sex on birth certificates blank for babies whose sex is not clear.
Response to comments on the article “Man Becomes Woman” by Wikan.
This study aimed to determine the profile of psychological violence against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Transgender (LGBTT) in Ceará. Quantitative study carried out with 316 LGBTT in individuals in the municipalities of Juazeiro do Norte and Crato, Ceará, Brazil. It showed a prevalence of psychological violence, and insults by the attackers located away from…