Rethinking Gender: Negotiating Future Queer Rights in Thailand

Gender, Technology and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-104

  Ocha, Witchayanee ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

development; Gender; queer theory; rights; sexuality; Thailand; transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874505650     PISSN: 09718524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0971852412472125     Document Type: Article

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