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Record Nr.

UNINA9910407712203321

Autore

Goh Joseph N

Titolo

Becoming a Malaysian Trans Man [[electronic resource] ] : Gender, Society, Body and Faith / / by Joseph N. Goh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

981-15-4534-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages)

Collana

Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia, , 2662-7884

Disciplina

306.76809595

Soggetti

Sociology

Sex (Psychology)

Gender expression

Ethnology

Human rights

Religion and sociology

Gender Studies

Social Anthropology

Human Rights

Sociology of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- Engendering Identity -- Engaging with Society -- Grappling with Gender Dysphoria -- Embarking on Medical Transitioning -- Performing Faith -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

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.