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100 1 $aJeffrey, Leslie Ann,$d1967-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002090259
245 10 $aSex and borders :$bgender, national identity, and prostitution policy in Thailand /$cLeslie Ann Jeffrey.
260 $aVancouver :$bUBC Press,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axxviii, 195 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tGender, Prostitution, and the "Standards of Civilization" --$g2.$tPeasants, Prostitutes, and the Body Politic: Prostitution as Cultural Decline and Political Resistance in the 1960s and 1970s --$g3.$tElite Women, the Reconstruction of National Identity, and the Prostitution Problem --$g4.$tWomen's Groups and the Prostitution Question: Prostitution Law under Premocracy --$g5.$tThe Politics of Prostitution and the "New Man": The 1996 Prostitution Law, International Image, and Middle-Class Masculinity --$g6.$tThe Middle Class and the Material Girl: The 1996 Prostitution Law and the Disciplining of Peasant Women --$g7.$tThe Politics of Prostitution: Gender, Class, and Nation.
520 1 $a"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.".
520 8 $a"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 behaviour of middle-class men, has been a main concern of Thai prostitution policy.
520 8 $aGender, Jeffrey argues, has become the mechanism through which states respond to the contradictory pressures of globalization and nation-building.".
520 8 $a"Based on interviews conducted in Thailand, as well as material from the media, government, and non-governmental organizations, the discussion stretches from the semi-colonial period, through the democracy movement of the 1960s and 70s, to the present day. Sex and Borders is essential reading for those interested in gender studies, Southeast Asian studies, and the politics of prostitution."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aProstitution$zThailand$xHistory.
651 0 $aThailand$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002662
651 6 $aProstitution$zThaïlande$xHistoire.
651 6 $aThaïlande$xConditions sociales.
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