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Many foreign observers of the "Land of Smiles" are familiar with a
narrow range of gender relations and sexual practices in Thailand,
from the fanciful portrayal of 19th-century harem life in The King
and I, to recent media coverage of sex tourism and AIDS. Yet
serious study of patterns of sexuality, femininity, and masculinity
in Thailand is relatively new. This book is a rare collection by
scholars from around the world and across social disciplines who
are tackling these issues. The essays urge the reader to look
beyond fantasies of Thailand as an "oriental sexual paradise" or
"land of sexploitation" to historical and contemporary forms of
gender and eroticism. Studies of the changing opinions and
practices among villagers and urbanites, the creative expressions
of novelists and aristocrats, and the concerns of early women's
magazines and recent AIDS-prevention campaigns, reveal the
extraordinary diversity of debates about gender and sexual issues
in 20th-century Thailand. Avoiding simplistic approaches to gender
studies and sexuality research, the authors discuss how
interpretations of gender roles, marriage, and intimate
relationships differ between men and women; cultural regions; Thai
and immigrant Chinese communities; and heterosexually and
homosexually active groups--as well as between residents of
Thailand and their foreign observers. By questioning accounts of
Thailand as a place where gender is fluid and sexuality is free,
the book unravels the complex processes by which Thai men and women
understand themselves, appealing to both general readers and
scholars of Thai society. Peter A. Jackson is fellow in Southeast
Asian history at Australian National University. Nerida M. Cook is
lecturer in sociology at the University of Tasmania.
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