| Description |
xi, 289 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction/ desiring constructs: transforming sex/gender orders in twentieth-century Thailand / Nerida M. Cook and Peter A. Jackson -- Changing the rules: shifting bounds of adolescent sexuality in Northeast Thailand / Chris Lyttleton -- Women and capitalist transformation in a northeastern Thai village / Andrea Whittaker -- Reconfiguring Chineseness in Thailand: articulating ethnicity along sex/gender and class lines / Jiemin Bao -- "Prostitutes are better than lovers": wives' views on the extramarital sexual behavior of Thai men / Chanpen Saengtienchai, John Knodel, Mark VanLandingham and Anthony Pramualratana -- Sexuality, sexual experience, and the good spouse: views of married Thai men and women / John Knodel, Chanpen Saengtienchai, Mark VanLandingham and Rachel Lucas -- "Who am 'I' in Thai?"- the Thai first person: self-reference or gendered self? / Voravudhi Chirasombutti and Anthony Diller -- Proto-feminist discourses in early twentieth-century Siam / Scot Barm -- Romances of the sixth reign: gender, sexuality, and Siamese nationalism / Thamora V. Fishel -- The Madonna and the whore: self/"other" tensions in the characterization of the prostitute by Thai female authors / Rachel Harrison -- Genealogies of exotic desire: the Thai night market in the western imagination / Ryan Bishop and Lillian S. Robinson -- Developing culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS education programs in Northern Thailand / Prudence Borthwick -- Tolerant but unaccepting: the myth of a Thai "gay paradise" / Peter A. Jackson -- Buddhism, prostitution, and sex: limits on the academic discourse on gender in Thailand / Nicola Tannenbaum -- On the gendering of nationalist and postnationalist selves in twentieth-century Thailand / Craig J. Reynolds -- Repositioning gender, sexuality, and power in Thai studies / Penny Van Esterik.n |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Cross-dressing -- Thailand.
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Gay men -- Thailand.
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Homosexuality -- Thailand.
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Gender identity -- Thailand.
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Sex role -- Thailand.
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Thais -- Sexual behavior.
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Lesbians -- Thailand.
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Transsexualism -- Thailand.
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Male prostitution -- Thailand.
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Women -- Thailand -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Cook, Nerida M.
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Jackson, Peter A.
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| LC no. |
00365546 |
| ISBN |
9747551071 |
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