Thai Sex Talk - The Language of Sex and Sexuality in Thailand (Paperback)

The Thai language has extraordinarily rich, varied, and multi-leveled vocabularies for sexual anatomy, behaviors, identities, and attitudes. The authors of this in-depth study deal directly with the language of sex in Thailand in all its raw, sometimes humorous, and often derogatory immediacy. The registers of spoken Thai (phasa phut), the language of the marketplace (phasa talat), official discourse (phasa ratchakan), literary usages (phasa khian), and technical and academic vocabularies (phasa wichakan) are all covered. Much more than a vocabulary list, this book engages the language of sex and sexuality in Thailand from critical feminist and queer studies perspectives. The authors take the positions of women, men who love men, women who love women, and transgenders as standpoints from which to critique the dominant male-centered and hetero-normative structures of Thai sexual culture. Thai Sex Talk showcases the path-breaking research that a new generation of Thai scholars is conducting on the country's sexual cultures.

General

Imprint:	Silkworm Books
Country of origin:	Thailand
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	September 2012
Editors:	Pimpawun Boonmongkon • Peter A. Jackson
Translators:	Timo Ojanen
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-6169005353
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > General
LSN:	6169005351
Barcode:	9786169005353

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