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A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.

Trade Review
A timely, interesting and well-documented study of the impact of Western (neo) imperialism on the construction of different prostitution policies (and on the lives of real prostitute women). -- Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University * Atlantis, Volume 28.1 *

Table of Contents

Acronyms; Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Gender, Prostitution, and the “Standards of Civilization”

2 Peasants, Prostitutes, and the Body Politic: Prostitution as Cultural Decline and Political Resistance in the 1960s and 1970s

3 Elite Women, the Reconstruction of National Identity, and the Prostitution Problem

4 Women’s Groups and the Prostitution Question: Prostitution Law under Premocracy

5 The Politics of Prostitution and the “New Man”: The 1996 Prostitution Law, International Image, and Middle-Class Masculinity

6 The Middle Class and the Material Girl: The 1996 Prostitution Law and the Disciplining of Peasant Women

7 The Politics of Prostitution: Gender, Class, and Nation

Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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      Publisher University of British Columbia Press
      Published 8 April 2002
      ISBN-13 9780774808729
      978-0774808729
      ISBN-10 0774808721
      Also in:
      History of scholarship Gender studies: women and girls Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.

      Trade Review
      A timely, interesting and well-documented study of the impact of Western (neo) imperialism on the construction of different prostitution policies (and on the lives of real prostitute women). -- Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University * Atlantis, Volume 28.1 *

      Table of Contents

      Acronyms; Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1 Gender, Prostitution, and the “Standards of Civilization”

      2 Peasants, Prostitutes, and the Body Politic: Prostitution as Cultural Decline and Political Resistance in the 1960s and 1970s

      3 Elite Women, the Reconstruction of National Identity, and the Prostitution Problem

      4 Women’s Groups and the Prostitution Question: Prostitution Law under Premocracy

      5 The Politics of Prostitution and the “New Man”: The 1996 Prostitution Law, International Image, and Middle-Class Masculinity

      6 The Middle Class and the Material Girl: The 1996 Prostitution Law and the Disciplining of Peasant Women

      7 The Politics of Prostitution: Gender, Class, and Nation

      Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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