Genders & sexualities in modern Thailand / edited by Peter A. Jackson & Nerida M. Cook
Imprint
Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books, 1999
Edition
1st ed
Descript
xi, 289 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Introduction/Desiring constructs : Transforming Sex/Gender Orders in Twentieth-Century Thailang - - Changing the Rules : Shifting Bounds of Adolescent Sexuality in Northeast Thailand - -Women and Capitalist Transformation in a Northeastern Thai Village - - Reconfiguring Chineseness in Thailand : Articulating Ethnicity Along Sex/Gender and Class Lines - - Prostitutes are Better Than Lovers : Wives Views on the Extramarital Sexual Behavior of Thai Men - - Sexuality, Sexual Experience, and the Good Spouse : Views of Married Thai Men and Women - - "Who Am 'I' in Thai ?" - The Thai First Person : Self-Reference or Gendered Self ? - - Proto-Feminist Discoures in Early Twentieth-Century SIam - - Romances of the Sixth Reign : Gender, Sexuality, and Siamese Nationalism - -The Madonna and the Whore : Self/"Other" Tensions in the Characterization of the Prostitute - - Genealogies of Exotic Desire : The Thai Night Market in Westren Imagination - - Developing Culturally Appropriate HIV/AIDS Education Programs in Northern Thailand - - Tolerant BUt Unaccepting : The Myth of a Thai : Gay Paradise" - - Buddhism, Prostitution, and Sex : Limits on the Academic Discourse on Gender in Thailand - - On the Gendering of Nationalist and Postnationalist Selver in Twentieth-Century Thailand - - Repositioning Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Thai Studies