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.
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