Description |
xviii, 195 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-190) and index. |
Contents |
Gender, prostitution, and the "standards of civilization" -- Peasants, prostitutes, and the body politic : prostitution as cultural decline and political resistance in the 1960s and 1970s -- Elite women, the reconstruction of national identity, and the prostitution problem -- Women's groups and the prostitution question : prostitution law under premocracy -- The politics of prostitution and the "new man" : the 1996 prostitution law, international image, and middle-class masculinity -- The middle class and the material girl : the 1996 prostitution law and the disciplining of peasant women -- The politics of prostitution : gender, class, and nation. |
Subject |
Prostitution -- Thailand.
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Nationalism -- Thailand.
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ISBN |
0824826183 alkaline paper |
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