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Title: The Third Sex: Kathoey--Thailand's Ladyboys
Author: Richard Totman
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Year: 2003
221 pages
A reasonably systematic study of kathoeys, combining sociological and ethnographic techniques. The author does some creative dramatizing that I thought detracted from the utility of the book and slid it over to a more sensationalistic genre. Read with the Thai section of War in the Blood: Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia for a better understanding of kathoeys' historically rather grim HIV statistics.
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