The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life

by Lynette J Chua and Lynette J. Chua

Book Overview

The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503607445
• ISBN13: 9781503607446
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"