Transgender culture and Thai boxing
Collections | Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: International Conference of Asian Queer Studies (2005) |
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Title: | Transgender culture and Thai boxing |
Author(s): | Rennesson, Stephane AsiaPacificQueer Network |
Publisher: | Canberra, ACT: The Australian National University |
Citation: | Rennesson, S (2005, July). Transgender culture and thai boxing . Paper presented at Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies. Bangkok, Thailand: AsiaPacifiQueer Network, Mahidol University; Australian National University |
Description: | Through exposing a few keys of understanding of the national success of transvestites as Muay Thai boxers in Thailand, I shall lay down a few perspectives that stand as many tracks to be followed during a future fieldwork that the ethnologic methodology requires. I draw my data from a daily life experience in Thailand between 1999 and 2001 when I was carrying out fieldwork about Thai Boxing, and the reading of Thai newspaper (general interest ones as well as specialised in boxing).
As a matter of fact, the Muay Thai’s image elaborated daily through its media coverage makes it a truly gendered activity. Definitely, it draws on masculine behaviour. Peter Vail (1998) sees Thai Boxing as the womb if hyper-masculinity. Considering this, I wish to question the confusing success of two cross-dressing boxers, Nong Tum and his recent emulator Nong Tim who is yet to be as famous as the former. I shall make use of the recent developments of gender analysis in Thailand embedded within the contemporary critical theory. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8694 |
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