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Leslie Ann Jeffrey - Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand - 9780774808729 - V9780774808729
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Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand

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Description for Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand Hardback. Prostitution in Thailand has been the subject of media sensationalism for decades. This work explores how Thai national identity in the global economy is linked to prostitution and gender, and how certain images of "the prostitute" have silenced discourses of prostitution as work. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMT; GTB; JFMX; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.

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 Thai national identity in such an economy is linked to prostitution 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 ... Read more

Sex and Borders is essential reading for those interested in gender studies, Southeast Asian studies, and the politics of prostitution.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774808729
SKU
V9780774808729
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Leslie Ann Jeffrey
Leslie Ann Jeffrey teaches political science in the Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus.

Reviews for Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
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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