TY - BOOK ID - 77893506 TI - Sex and borders : gender, national identity, and prostitution policy in Thailand PY - 2002 SN - 1283330482 9786613330482 0774850175 9780774850179 9781283330480 0774808721 9780774808729 077480873X 9780774808736 0824826183 9780824826185 6613330485 PB - Vancouver : UBC Press, DB - UniCat KW - Prostitution KW - Female prostitution KW - Hustling (Prostitution) KW - Prostitution, Female KW - Sex trade (Prostitution) KW - Sex work (Prostitution) KW - Street prostitution KW - Trade, Sex (Prostitution) KW - White slave traffic KW - White slavery KW - Work, Sex (Prostitution) KW - Sex-oriented businesses KW - Brothels KW - Pimps KW - Procuresses KW - Red-light districts KW - Sex crimes KW - History. KW - Thaìˆlande KW - Thailand KW - Conditions sociales. KW - Histoire. KW - Social conditions. KW - Sex work UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893506 AB - 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 Thai national identity in such an economy is linked to prostitution 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 behaviour of middle-class men, has been a main concern of Thai prostitution policy. Gender, Jeffrey argues, has become the mechanism through which states respond to the contradictory pressures of globalization and nation-building. Sex and Borders is essential reading for those interested in gender studies, Southeast Asian studies, and the politics of prostitution. ER -