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Materializing Thailand
Taschenbuch von Penny Van Esterik
Sprache: Englisch

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Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent from glossy tourist brochures but equally well known throughout the Western world is Thailand's seedier side - the world of child exploitation, rampant prostitution and AIDS. Thailand maintains its appeal by slipping the ugly and painful out of sight and by promoting women as exotic visual icons through beauty contests, state rituals and the sex trade. This book explores the construction of gender in Thailand and in particular the role Bangkok plays in establishing gender relations for the whole of the country. It examines the historical and cultural processes underlying Thai public culture, including historical theme parks. The author demonstrates how the materiality of the Thai world shapes gender relations and how Buddhism discourages essentialisms, including fixed binary gender identities. Throughout the book, appearances are shown to be critically important, and the essentialism of gender is maintained through display, public presentations, and everyday material practices. Anyone wishing to understand the complexity of Thailand will find this book provides a highly readable and insightful analysis.
Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent from glossy tourist brochures but equally well known throughout the Western world is Thailand's seedier side - the world of child exploitation, rampant prostitution and AIDS. Thailand maintains its appeal by slipping the ugly and painful out of sight and by promoting women as exotic visual icons through beauty contests, state rituals and the sex trade. This book explores the construction of gender in Thailand and in particular the role Bangkok plays in establishing gender relations for the whole of the country. It examines the historical and cultural processes underlying Thai public culture, including historical theme parks. The author demonstrates how the materiality of the Thai world shapes gender relations and how Buddhism discourages essentialisms, including fixed binary gender identities. Throughout the book, appearances are shown to be critically important, and the essentialism of gender is maintained through display, public presentations, and everyday material practices. Anyone wishing to understand the complexity of Thailand will find this book provides a highly readable and insightful analysis.
Über den Autor
Penny Van Esterik York University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface, List of Figures, Part I Orientations, 1. Crafting Thailand, 2. Ordering the Past: Representations of Thai Women, 3. Buddhism and Gender Ideology, Part II Representations, 4. Representing Thai Culture, 5. Deconstructing Display: Gender and Beauty, 6. Prostitution and Foreign Bodies, Part III Interpretations, 7. Modelling Thai Gender Relations, 8. Context and Continuity: Grasshoppers, Turtles and Feminists, Bibliography, Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781859733110
ISBN-10: 1859733115
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Esterik, Penny Van
Redaktion: Miller, Daniel
Gilroy, Paul
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Penny Van Esterik
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2000
Gewicht: 0,442 kg
Artikel-ID: 128464994
Über den Autor
Penny Van Esterik York University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface, List of Figures, Part I Orientations, 1. Crafting Thailand, 2. Ordering the Past: Representations of Thai Women, 3. Buddhism and Gender Ideology, Part II Representations, 4. Representing Thai Culture, 5. Deconstructing Display: Gender and Beauty, 6. Prostitution and Foreign Bodies, Part III Interpretations, 7. Modelling Thai Gender Relations, 8. Context and Continuity: Grasshoppers, Turtles and Feminists, Bibliography, Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781859733110
ISBN-10: 1859733115
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Esterik, Penny Van
Redaktion: Miller, Daniel
Gilroy, Paul
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Penny Van Esterik
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2000
Gewicht: 0,442 kg
Artikel-ID: 128464994
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