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Author Jeffrey, Leslie Ann, 1967-

Title Sex and borders : gender, national identity, and prostitution policy in Thailand / Leslie Ann Jeffrey.

Publication Info. Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai'i Press, 2003.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.74 J46S    Check Shelf
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.
Nationalism -- Thailand.
ISBN 0824826183 alkaline paper
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