| Description |
xi, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Women, Migration, and Thai Experiences of Modernity -- 2. Village and Nation -- 3. Cash, Commodities, and Modernity -- 4. Parents, Children, and Migration Decisions -- 5. Gender and Mobility -- 6. Bangkok Wage Workers -- 7. Consumption, Desire, and Thansamay Selves -- 8. Courtship, Marriage, and Contested Selves -- 9. Gender and Modernity, Local and Global Encounters |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Thailand.
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Migrant labor -- Thailand.
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Women -- Thailand -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
98044992 |
| ISBN |
0813526531 cloth alkaline paper |
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081352654X paperback alkaline paper |
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