SOCI 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Kathoey, Gender Variance, Hookup Culture
Document Summary
Avoided direct western colonization; employed auto colonial practices to become siwilai (civilized) to western countries; arguably more direct and stronger for change in thailand. Traditional system of 3 sexes until western epidemics and influence changed that. Genderscapes: sex/gender system of inhabiting reproductive differences to create kinship. 3 dimensional space opens up crosses, unities, mixes, alternatives beyond m/f f/m trans. Performance/practice of gender = rearticulation, ritualization, and discourses. 5 gender nodes in relation to one another from anatomy, presentation, socioeconomic roles, desire for others, etc. Public enactments of gender variance is highlighted for difference. Kathoey: m to f trans, desire relationships w/ heterosexual men. Gay: male, desires same-sex relationships w/ other males. Tom: masculine women desires same-sex relationships w/ other women. Dee: feminine woman desires same-sex relationships w/ tom. Gay, kathoey, man, woman, tom, and dee are all varieties of phet . Not sexuality or gender but a combination of all aspects.
