Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
Author:   Leslie Ann Jeffrey
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
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9780774808736


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Leslie Ann Jeffrey
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780774808736


ISBN 10:   077480873
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acronyms; Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Gender, Prostitution, and the Standards of Civilization 2 Peasants, Prostitutes, and the Body Politic: Prostitution as Cultural Decline and Political Resistance in the 1960s and 1970s 3 Elite Women, the Reconstruction of National Identity, and the Prostitution Problem 4 Women's Groups and the Prostitution Question: Prostitution Law under Premocracy 5 The Politics of Prostitution and the New Man : The 1996 Prostitution Law, International Image, and Middle-Class Masculinity 6 The Middle Class and the Material Girl: The 1996 Prostitution Law and the Disciplining of Peasant Women 7 The Politics of Prostitution: Gender, Class, and Nation Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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A timely, interesting and well-documented study of the impact of Western (neo) imperialism on the construction of different prostitution policies (and on the lives of real prostitute women). -- Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University * Atlantis, Volume 28.1 *


A timely, interesting and well-documented study of the impact of Western (neo) imperialism on the construction of different prostitution policies (and on the lives of real prostitute women). -- Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University Atlantis, Volume 28.1


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Leslie Ann Jeffrey teaches political science in the Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus.

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