Author: Jeffrey, Leslie Ann.
Title: Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity, and Prostitution Policy in Thailand.
Description: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Paperback. 224 pp. English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - 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. ISBN 9780824826185.

Keywords: ASIAN STUDIES, prostitution Thailand