Transgender culture and Thai boxing
| dc.contributor.author | Rennesson, Stephane | en |
| dc.contributor.author | AsiaPacificQueer Network | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-20T02:45:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-10-20T02:45:12Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2005 | en_AU |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_AU |
| dc.description.sponsorship | AsiaPacifiQueer Network, Australian National University | en_AU |
| dc.format.extent | 8 pages | en_AU |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.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 | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8694 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
| dc.provenance | " ... as chair of the organising committee for the conference I give my permission for the permanent archiving of the papers. All authors whose papers appear on the site gave their permission for open access to these papers" - from email dated 26/9/11, Professor Peter Jackson, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU | en_AU |
| dc.publisher | Canberra, ACT: The Australian National University | en_AU |
| dc.rights | Author/s retain copyright | en_AU |
| dc.source | Sexualities, genders and rights in Asia : 1st international Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand 7-9 July 2005 | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay rights -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture -- Asia -- Social conditions -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay community -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay community. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay rights. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Asia. | en_AU |
| dc.title | Transgender culture and Thai boxing | en_AU |
| dc.type | Conference paper | en_AU |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2005 | |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Rennesson, Stephane, University of Paris X - Nanterre | en_AU |
| local.description.notes | The conference was held Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 July 2005 and convened by the AsiaPacifiQueer Network. ANU was the host organisation for this network, and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies provided funding support. ANU was acknowledged as a co-sponsor of the conference. | en_AU |
| local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u4142396 | en_AU |
| local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |