Sex and Borders

Sex and Borders
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
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ISBN-10 : 9780824826185
ISBN-13 : 0824826183
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Book Synopsis Sex and Borders by : Leslie Ann Jeffrey

Download or read book Sex and Borders written by Leslie Ann Jeffrey and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution in Thailand has been the subject of media sensationalism for decades. Bangkok's brothels have become international icons of Third World women's exploitation in the global sex trade. Recently, however, sex workers have begun to demand not pity, but rights as workers in the global economy. This book explores how prostitution policy is linked to the disciplining of Thai national identity and gender. Jeffrey asserts that certain images of "The Prostitute" have silenced discourses of prostitution as work, while fostering the idea of the peasant woman as the embodiment of national culture. This idea, coupled with a will to shape the modern state through the behavior of middle-class men, has been a main concern of Thai prostitution policy. Gender, the author argues, has become the mechanism through which states respond to the contradictory pressures of globalization and nation-building. Based on interviews conducted in Thailand, as well as material from the media, government, and nongovernmental organizations, the discussion stretches from the semicolonial period, through the democracy movement of the 1960s and 1970s, to the present day.


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