The Mak Nyahs

Author : Teh Yik Koon
Publisher : Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789672464884

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“Objective and compassionate, Teh Yik Koon has written not only about her research on which the book is based, but a work imbued with humanity, supported with hard facts and figures from thorough research. Her book fills a large void in sexuality literature particularly on male transsexuality in Malaysia. It demystifies the mak nyah who is seen, at best, as a deviant or an aberration of society, or at worst, a religious blasphemy. This book would not only benefit students and researchers interested in the issue, but the general reader—for instance, parents concerned for their transsexual children—and those seeking answers to the transsexual question.” Ong Ju Lin Co-author of The Rape Report: An Overview of Rape in Malaysia “The transgendered communities of Southeast Asia are little understood, either within the academic community or in the societies at whose margins they are forced to live. Teh’s study of the Malaysian mak nyah shines a bright light on the lives of people who, apart from growing up with an identity that fails to match their body, turn out to be much like the rest of us. In reducing our ignorance about these people, this book should contribute to reducing the prejudice and discrimination to which mak nyahs are subjected to daily.” Sam Winter Transgender Asia Research Centre, University of Hong Kong This book explores the issue of transsexuals in Malaysia. Through numerous studies, interviews with relevant parties and accounts from the mak nyahs themselves, the book gives a profound insight into the world of transsexuals—the history and definition of mak nyahs, what it means to be a mak nyah in Malaysia, transsexuals in other countries, and the views of relevant parties regarding transsexuals in Malaysia, among others. For those who seek a deeper understanding of the mak nyahs, this book provides intriguing and enlightening facts and accounts, which help to broaden one’s perspective of this community who form part of the diversity of the human landscape.

Author : Yik Koon Teh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9672464819

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Author : Fran Martin,Peter Jackson,Mark McLelland,Audrey Yue
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252091810

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AsiaPacifiQueer by Fran Martin,Peter Jackson,Mark McLelland,Audrey Yue Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. The diverse studies in AsiaPacifiQueer demonstrate convincingly that in the realm of sexualities, globalization results in creative and cultural admixture rather than a unilateral imposition of the western values and forms of sexual culture. These essays range across the Pacific Rim and encompass a variety of forms of social, cultural, and personal expression, examining sexuality through music, cinema, the media, shifts in popular rhetoric, comics and magazines, and historical studies. By investigating complex processes of localization, interregional borrowing, and hybridization, the contributors underscore the mutual transformation of gender and sexuality in both Asian Pacific and Western cultures. Contributors are Ronald Baytan, J. Neil C. Garcia, Kam Yip Lo Lucetta, Song Hwee Lim, J. Darren Mackintosh, Claire Maree, Jin-Hyung Park, Teri Silvio, Megan Sinnott, Yik Koon Teh, Carmen Ka Man Tong, James Welker, Heather Worth, and Audrey Yue.

Author : Hugo Córdova Quero,Michael Sepidoza Campos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137447739

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Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia by Hugo Córdova Quero,Michael Sepidoza Campos Pdf

The book explores migration and queerness as they relate to ethnic/racial identity constructions, immigration processes and legal status, the formation of trans/national and trans/cultural partnerships, and friendships. It explores the roles that religious identities/values/worldviews play in the fortification/critique of queer migrant identities.

Author : Geetanjali Misra,Radhika Chandiramani
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0761934030

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Sexuality, Gender and Rights by Geetanjali Misra,Radhika Chandiramani Pdf

This volume analyzes and documents the groundbreaking work done by many organizations to bring issues of sexuality and rights to public attention, to expand the freedoms of women and sexual minorities and to highlight the unfair distinctions faced by those not conforming to gender and sexual norms across a range of expressions, behaviours and identities in Asia. This volume covers eight countries in South and Southeast Asia. The contributors address issues of power and social hierarchies by using the principles of justice, equality, non-discrimination, and access to rights and services. They cover diverse issues like sexual rights, sexuality education, sexual health services, transsexuals and other sexual minorities, HIV/AIDS prevention, as well as sex work and the representation of sexuality in popular culture. The contributors argue that neither gender nor sexuality can be addressed in isolation from human rights and demonstrate how linking sexuality and gender with human rights has an impact on people`s lives across intersecting issues and contexts. Moving beyond theoretical discussions of sexuality, gender and rights, this volume looks at what these ideas mean in practice and offers examples of the diversity of effective approaches that can be adopted in varied settings. Moreover, it illustrates how sexuality ties in with wider issues—health, personal relationships, economic well-being, equitable access to public services, and the freedom to think, speak and associate without fear of discrimination.

Author : Bolich,Ph. D. G. G. Bolich
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780615167664

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Transgender History & Geography: Crossdressing in Context by Bolich,Ph. D. G. G. Bolich Pdf

The third in a landmark five volume study of transgender realities, with a focus on crossdressing, this fascinating volume offers a tour through history and around the world. Within these pages are found the most famous crossdressers of history and information as to what it means to be a transgender person in the various countries of the world today.

Author : National Institute on Drug Abuse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030034808479

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Proceedings of the NIDA-sponsored Satellite Sessions in Association with the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 7-11, 2002 by National Institute on Drug Abuse Pdf

Author : Larry Nuttbrock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781939594235

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Transgender Sex Work and Society by Larry Nuttbrock Pdf

This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and challenges in the realm of public health. The volume covers trans sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies.

Author : Ph. D. G. G. Bolich
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780615253565

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Crossdressing in Context, Vol. 4 Transgender & Religion by Ph. D. G. G. Bolich Pdf

Much debate exists over the proper religious perspective on transgender realities and people. This volume examines transgender in the major world religions. Extensive consideration is given to Christianity, including the arguments presented both against transgender behaviors and by supporters of transgender people. Religions covered include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and indigenous religions such as Native American religions of the United States.

Author : Richard Ekins,Dave King
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847877260

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The Transgender Phenomenon by Richard Ekins,Dave King Pdf

"Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded account of this field, providing a state of the art of critical concepts and ideas to take this field further during the twenty first century." - Ken Plummer, University of Essex "An outstanding survey of the evolution of trans phenomena, splendidly written, highly informative, scholarly at its best, yet easy to read even for those neither trans nor sociologist. Ekins and King, experts in the field, unroll the panoramas of sex, gender, and transgendering that have evloved during the last decades. For everyone wanting to understand the interaction of women and men and of those who cannot or will not identify with either of these two cataegories, reading this book is a must, and a real pleasure." - Friedmann Pfaefflin, University of ULM This groundbreaking study sets out a framework for exploring transgender diversity for the new millennium. It sets forth an original and comprehensive research and provides a wealth of vivid illustrative material. Based on two decades of fieldwork, life history work, qualitative analysis, archival work and contact with several thousand cross-dressers and sex-changers around the world, the authors distinguish a number of contemporary transgendering ′stories′ to illustrate: The binary male/female divide The interrelations betwen sex, sexuality and gender The interrelations between the main sub-processes of transgendering. Wonderfully insightful, The Transgender Phenomenon develops an original and innovative conceptual framkework for understanding the full range of the transgender experience.

Author : Amaya G. Perez-Brumer,Richard Parker,Peter Aggleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351365482

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Rethinking MSM, Trans* and other Categories in HIV Prevention by Amaya G. Perez-Brumer,Richard Parker,Peter Aggleton Pdf

As the HIV epidemic moves into its fourth decade, it is clear that the global response has failed to adequately address the needs of a wide range of vulnerable populations and groups. Chief among these are gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, and transgender persons, who globally face the disproportional burden of HIV infection. This volume rethinks HIV prevention and health promotion for sexual and gender minorities – in both the industrialised societies of the West, as well as in the developing nations of the Global South. The chapters it contains offer a critical analysis of past and present HIV research employing categories to designate gay and other men who have sex with men, transgender persons, and/or other persons and communities with diverse gender and sexual identities. Contributors question the politics of many of the existing classifications and categories in HIV research and argue for a more sophisticated analysis of gender and sexual diversity in order to tackle the social and political barriers that impede the design of successful HIV prevention and health promotion approaches. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Public Health.

Author : Joseph N. Goh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811545344

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Becoming a Malaysian Trans Man by Joseph N. Goh Pdf

This book explores the fluid, mutable and contingent ways in which transgender men in Malaysia construct their subjectivities. Against the dearth of academic resources on Malaysian trans men, this ground-breaking monograph is rooted in the lived experiences of Malaysian trans men whose vicissitudes have mostly been hidden, silenced and overlooked. Comprising diverse age groups, ethnicities, socio-economic status, educational backgrounds and religious persuasions, these trans men reveal how they navigate life in a country with secular and religious laws that criminalise their embodiments, and the strategies they deploy to achieve self-determination and self-actualisation despite being perceived as aberrant and sinful. This book demonstrates how negotiations with constitutive elements such as gender identity, social interaction, citizenship, legality, bodily struggle, medical transitioning and personal spiritual validation condition the becomings of Malaysian trans men.

Author : Jennifer B. Saunders,Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,Susanna Snyder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137586292

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Intersections of Religion and Migration by Jennifer B. Saunders,Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh,Susanna Snyder Pdf

This innovative volume introduces readers to a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches used to examine the intersections of religion and migration. A range of leading figures in this field consider the roles of religion throughout various types of migration, including forced, voluntary, and economic. They discuss examples of migrations at all levels, from local to global, and critically examine case studies from various regional contexts across the globe. The book grapples with the linkages and feedback between religion and migration, exploring immigrant congregations, activism among and between religious groups, and innovations in religious thought in light of migration experiences, among other themes. The contributors demonstrate that religion is an important factor in migration studies and that attention to the intersection between religion and migration augments and enriches our understandings of religion. Ultimately, this volume provides a crucial survey of a burgeoning cross-disciplinary, interreligious, and global area of study.

Author : Chris Greenough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429887673

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Queer Theologies: The Basics by Chris Greenough Pdf

Queer Theologies: The Basics is a concise and illuminating introduction to the study of this controversial and discursive subject area. This book provides an accessible exploration into the major themes within queer studies, queer theologies, and themes of gender and sexuality in Christianity. Topics covered include: The development of queer theologies Queering ‘traditional’ theology Queer theologies in global contexts Queer Bible Queer theologies from queer lives With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading throughout, this book is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a full introduction to Christian queer theologies as well as broader themes in theology, gender, and sexuality.

Author : Christopher Pullen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230373310

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LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media by Christopher Pullen Pdf

Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.