Paired Double Consciousness: A Du Boisian Approach to Gender and Transnational Double Consciousness in Thai Kathoey Self-Formation. (12th April 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Paired Double Consciousness: A Du Boisian Approach to Gender and Transnational Double Consciousness in Thai Kathoey Self-Formation. (12th April 2021)
- Main Title:
- Paired Double Consciousness: A Du Boisian Approach to Gender and Transnational Double Consciousness in Thai Kathoey Self-Formation
- Authors:
- Lynne, Alyssa
- Abstract:
- Abstract: Sociologists have not adequately explored how Du Bois' concept of double consciousness could be used to study the role of cisnormative oppression in self-formation or how it could enrich studies of self-formation beyond the Atlantic world. This article addresses these gaps by merging postcolonial feminist theory and the concept of double consciousness to analyze kathoey self-formation . Kathoey are gender nonconforming (GNC) individuals in Thailand who are assigned male at birth and live as women. Drawing upon participant observation, in-depth interviews, and content analysis, I propose an extension to double consciousness called "paired double consciousness." This framework explains how cisnormative and neocolonial oppression lead kathoey to experience two veils. The first veil divides self-formation between kathoey and dominant cisgender worlds within Thai society, which produces "gender double consciousness." The second veil divides self-formation between kathoey and dominant transgender worlds within a global community, which creates "transnational double consciousness."
- Is Part Of:
- Social problems. Volume 68:Number 2(2021)
- Journal:
- Social problems
- Issue:
- Volume 68:Number 2(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 68, Issue 2 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 68
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0068-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 250
- Page End:
- 266
- Publication Date:
- 2021-04-12
- Subjects:
- Thailand -- double consciousness -- gender -- self-formation -- postcolonial feminist theory
Social problems -- Periodicals
301 - Journal URLs:
- http://socpro.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
http://www.oxfordjournals.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/socpro/spaa073 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0037-7791
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- Legaldeposit
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