Megan Sinnott
Biographic Data
| ID | 732158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Sinnott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinnott |
| SIGNATURE | SINNOTT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePauw University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Child Spirits in Thailand: The Intimacy of Kumanthong and Luk Thep
Propitiating, or “adopting” child spirits is a traditional practice in Thailand that briefly joined a transnational trend in the mid 2010s of adopting dolls that had the look and feel of the realistic reborn dolls that were trendy in the United States in the 1990s. These “angel dolls,” or luk thep, are a recent innovation in the diverse practices of propitiating child spirits that highlight the intimate, familial, and affective dimensions of thes…
Petrus Liu, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (Durham, NC: (Duke University Press, 2015)
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
On Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema
Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently feature the motif of the female ghost. In these films th…
Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand
A vibrant, growing, and highly visible set of female identities has emerged in Thailand known as tom and dee. A "tom" (from "tomboy") refers to a masculine woman who is sexually involved with a feminine partner, or "dee" (from "lady"). The patterning of female same-sex relationships into masculine and feminine pairs, coupled with the use of English derived terms to refer to them, is found throughout East and Southeast Asia. Have the forces of cap…
Baby Ghosts: Child Spirits and Contemporary Conceptions of Childhood in Thailand
The currently popular practice of propitiating, or ‘adopting’, child spirits in Thailand reveals an ambivalent attitude towards childhood. According to Buddhist scholars on childhood, Buddhist conceptions of children do not differentiate children in significant ways from adults in terms of their relative purity or innocence, as both children and adults possess countless lifetimes of karma; children are thus agentive beings, although not yet fully…
The Libidinal Power of Revolution: Sexuality in the Thai Leftist Movement of the 1970s–1980s
Leftist movements of the mid-twentieth century have a well earned reputation for sexual conservatism. However, these movements were not of a simplistic reactionary type, but rather were embedded in sexualized contexts that functioned through the displacement of individual sexual desire. Following from the work of Ka F. Wong and his Lacanian analysis of the way displaced sexuality functioned in the experience of participants in the Chinese Cultura…
Dormitories and Other Queer Spaces: An Anthropology of Space, Gender, and the Visibility of Female Homoeroticism in Thailand
Dormitoriesand OtherQueer Spaces: An Anthropology ofSpace, Gender, and theVisibility ofFemale Homoeroticism in Thailand MeflanSinnott In Thailand, many women spend part of their lives in dormito ries in order to live near their workplace or school. Dormitories were established as a response to the growth of urban and industrial jobs as well as the growth of schooling for girls and women in provincial and urban centers, and they can be found in fa…
Korean-Pop, Tom Gay Kings , Les Queens and the Capitalist Transformation of Sex/Gender Categories in Thailand
Since the early 2000s, masculine style for queer women in Thailand has been heavily influenced by Korean popular culture, or “K-pop”. K-pop is marked by deliberate gender androgyny and overall gender play. This new aesthetics of masculinity used by masculine-identifying women has been accompanied by linguistic shifts in which explicitly sexualised terms, such as queen and king , themselves products of complex transnational borrowings, have been b…
Borders, Diaspora, and Regional Connections: Trends in Asian "Queer" Studies
Over approximately the past fifteen years, English-language scholarship on same-sex sexuality and transgenderism in Asia has expanded dramatically.1 One of the most significant themes in this literature is the exploration of sexuality and gender as a form of identity (or “subjectivity”), practice, and cultural discourse (or “cultural logic”) that has emerged in the context of the transnational movement of concepts, bodies, and imagery. The turn t…
Association for Feminist Anthropology
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Association for Feminist Anthropology
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Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality (review)
Reviewed by: Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality by Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons Megan Sinnott Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality. By Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Harriet and Andrew Lyons have written a thorough historical narrative of anthropology’s engagement with the study of sexuality. This volume is a valuable addition to the literatu…
Association for Feminist Anthropology: Politics of Gender Identity
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Korean-Pop, Tom Gay Kings , Les Queens and the Capitalist Transformation of Sex/Gender Categories in Thailand
Since the early 2000s, masculine style for queer women in Thailand has been heavily influenced by Korean popular culture, or “K-pop”. K-pop is marked by deliberate gender androgyny and overall gender play. This new aesthetics of masculinity used by masculine-identifying women has been accompanied by linguistic shifts in which explicitly sexualised terms, such as queen and king , themselves products of complex transnational borrowings, have been b…
Borders, Diaspora, and Regional Connections: Trends in Asian "Queer" Studies
Over approximately the past fifteen years, English-language scholarship on same-sex sexuality and transgenderism in Asia has expanded dramatically.1 One of the most significant themes in this literature is the exploration of sexuality and gender as a form of identity (or “subjectivity”), practice, and cultural discourse (or “cultural logic”) that has emerged in the context of the transnational movement of concepts, bodies, and imagery. The turn t…
On Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema
Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently feature the motif of the female ghost. In these films th…
Baby Ghosts: Child Spirits and Contemporary Conceptions of Childhood in Thailand
The currently popular practice of propitiating, or ‘adopting’, child spirits in Thailand reveals an ambivalent attitude towards childhood. According to Buddhist scholars on childhood, Buddhist conceptions of children do not differentiate children in significant ways from adults in terms of their relative purity or innocence, as both children and adults possess countless lifetimes of karma; children are thus agentive beings, although not yet fully…
Dormitories and Other Queer Spaces: An Anthropology of Space, Gender, and the Visibility of Female Homoeroticism in Thailand
Dormitoriesand OtherQueer Spaces: An Anthropology ofSpace, Gender, and theVisibility ofFemale Homoeroticism in Thailand MeflanSinnott In Thailand, many women spend part of their lives in dormito ries in order to live near their workplace or school. Dormitories were established as a response to the growth of urban and industrial jobs as well as the growth of schooling for girls and women in provincial and urban centers, and they can be found in fa…
Masculinity and Tom Identity in Thailand
Thai lesbian women engage local cultural meanings of masculinity in the creation of personal identities. Lesbian identity in Thailand is largely framed in terms of “butch-femme” gender role-playing, with the masculine woman referred to as tom and the feminine woman dee. According to informants, the dynamics between toms and dees differ from the normative expectations and experiences of hetero-sexuality for Thai women. Although Thai toms express t…
Masculinity and Tom Identity in Thailand
Thai lesbian women engage local cultural meanings of masculinity in the creation of personal identities. Lesbian identity in Thailand is largely framed in terms of “butch-femme” gender role-playing, with the masculine woman referred to as tom and the feminine woman dee. According to informants, the dynamics between toms and dees differ from the normative expectations and experiences of hetero-sexuality for Thai women. Although Thai toms express t…
The semiotics of transgendered sexual identity in the Thai print media: Imagery and discourse of the sexual other
This paper offers a review of the ways in which the Thai print media presents images of transgendered and/or homosexual identities or what may be termed 'gendered/transgendered sexualities'. The author argues that the varied, and at times contradictory, images of gendered sexualities used by the print media can be understood as discursive devices in broader social debates within Thai society. The paper reviews three cases recently covered by the …
Association for Feminist Anthropology: Politics of Gender Identity
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology: Teaching Feminism
Association for Feminist Anthropology: The Queer Turn in Feminist Studies
Association for Feminist Anthropologists: Anthropology Does Not Sit Still
Association for Feminist Anthropologists: A Retreat from Reflexivity
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality (review)
Reviewed by: Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality by Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons Megan Sinnott Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality. By Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Harriet and Andrew Lyons have written a thorough historical narrative of anthropology’s engagement with the study of sexuality. This volume is a valuable addition to the literatu…
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Borders, Diaspora, and Regional Connections: Trends in Asian "Queer" Studies
Over approximately the past fifteen years, English-language scholarship on same-sex sexuality and transgenderism in Asia has expanded dramatically.1 One of the most significant themes in this literature is the exploration of sexuality and gender as a form of identity (or “subjectivity”), practice, and cultural discourse (or “cultural logic”) that has emerged in the context of the transnational movement of concepts, bodies, and imagery. The turn t…
Korean-Pop, Tom Gay Kings , Les Queens and the Capitalist Transformation of Sex/Gender Categories in Thailand
Since the early 2000s, masculine style for queer women in Thailand has been heavily influenced by Korean popular culture, or “K-pop”. K-pop is marked by deliberate gender androgyny and overall gender play. This new aesthetics of masculinity used by masculine-identifying women has been accompanied by linguistic shifts in which explicitly sexualised terms, such as queen and king , themselves products of complex transnational borrowings, have been b…
Dormitories and Other Queer Spaces: An Anthropology of Space, Gender, and the Visibility of Female Homoeroticism in Thailand
Dormitoriesand OtherQueer Spaces: An Anthropology ofSpace, Gender, and theVisibility ofFemale Homoeroticism in Thailand MeflanSinnott In Thailand, many women spend part of their lives in dormito ries in order to live near their workplace or school. Dormitories were established as a response to the growth of urban and industrial jobs as well as the growth of schooling for girls and women in provincial and urban centers, and they can be found in fa…
Sociology (28 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Library science (17 works) · Anthropology (16 works) · Citation (15 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (12 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (10 works)