'For me ... it's a miracle': Injecting beauty among kathoeis in a provincial Thai city
'For me ... it's a miracle': Injecting beauty among kathoeis in a provincial Thai city
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DOI：
10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.06.015
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Guadamuz, Thomas E.
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作者：
Poompruek, Panoopat;Boonmongkon, Pimpawun;Guadamuz, Thomas E.
背景：泰语“kathoei”一词是指处于过渡时期不同阶段、在社会中具有公认的社会和文化角色的非性别规范女性、男性和间性个体。然而，只有泰国社会才容忍天主教徒。许多kathoeis通过美丽寻求社会认可，并转向标签外注射各种“美容药物”。 方法：第一作者于2011年4月至9月在泰国中部省会城市的一家婚礼工作室对注射聚会进行了人种学研究。通过参与者观察、焦点小组讨论和对六名参与者的叙述性访谈收集数据。所有数据均以泰语收集和分析，然后进行翻译。结果：虽然注射聚会为 Kathoei 提供了社交、联系和分享化学辅助转化经验知识的机会，但它们也复制了性别、美丽和性的意识形态，强化了这样的观念：如果 Kathoei 要保持美丽，她必须更频繁地使用更高剂量的药物。结论：泰国 Kathoei 中的注射聚会的特点是药物使用在他们自己的行业中是完全合理的知识。通过以反映其实践的复杂性和多样性的方式提供有关化学品和健康的可获取信息，增强 Kathoeis 的权能，将是降低健康风险的一种方法。社会必须为kathoeis提供更多长期选择，以建立他们的自我意识，除了美丽之外。 (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. 保留所有权利。
Background: The Thai term kathoei refers to non-gender-normative females, males and intersexual individuals at different stages of the transitional spectrum with recognized social and cultural roles in society. Nevertheless, kathoeis are only tolerated in Thai society. Many kathoeis seek social acceptance through beauty and turn to the off-label injection of various 'beauty drugs'.Methods: The first author conducted an ethnographic study of injection parties at a wedding studio in a Central Thai provincial city between April and September 2011. Data were gathered through participant observation, focus group discussions and narrative interviews with six participants. All data were collected and analyzed in Thai, and later translated.Results: While injection parties provide opportunities for kathoeis to socialize, bond, and share experiential knowledge on chemically assisted transformation, they also reproduce ideologies of gender, beauty and sexuality that reinforce the notion that if a kathoei is to maintain her beauty, she must use medicines more frequently and in higher doses.Conclusion: Injection parties among Thai kathoeis feature drug use that is entirely reasonable in terms of their own lay knowledge. Empowering kathoeis, by providing accessible information on chemicals and health in a way that reflects the complexity and diversity of their practices, would be one way to reduce health risks. Society must give more long-term options to kathoeis to build their sense of self, based on things besides being beautiful. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.