Description
Book SynopsisA compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.
Trade ReviewA 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 ContentsAcronyms; 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
