Overview
- Focuses on Malaysian trans men
- Showcases a mélange of various scholarly voices and issues
- Draws on in-depth, face-to-face grassroots interviews with 15 research participants and one elite
Part of the book series: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia (GSCA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Joseph N. Goh is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. His research interests include queer, LGBTI and theological studies, and qualitative research. Goh is the author of Living Out Sexuality and Faith: Body Admissions of Malaysian Gay and Bisexual Men.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Becoming a Malaysian Trans Man
Book Subtitle: Gender, Society, Body and Faith
Authors: Joseph N. Goh
Series Title: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4534-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4533-7Published: 24 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-4536-8Published: 24 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-4534-4Published: 23 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-7884
Series E-ISSN: 2662-7892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 256
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Gender Studies, Social Anthropology, Human Rights, Sociology of Religion