Thai Women in the Global Labor Force
Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
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ISBN-13:
9780813526546
Veröffentl:
1999
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.1999
Seiten:
238
Autor:
Mary Beth Mills
Gewicht:
331 g
Format:
230x152x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Most research on female labor migration in Thailand focuses on that country's infamous sex industry. Mary Beth Mills offers the first extended ethnographic analysis of rural women's movement into less visible occupations, paying particular attention to the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis. Mills follows the women as they travel from the village of Baan Naa Sakae to Bangkok, where they encounter new forms of consumption, new "modern" lifestyles, and a new sense of identity. By departing from the most common ethnographic portrayals of Thai women -- as mothers and rural housewives or as prostitutes -- this book expands our understanding of how gender and gender relations are constructed, contested, and transformed in contemporary Thai society.
List of Figures Acknowledgements 1 Women, Migration and Thai Experiences of Modernity 2 Village and Nation 3 Cash, Commodities, and Modernity 4 Parents, Children, and Migration Decisions 5 Gender and Mobility 6 Bangkok Wage Workers 7 Consumption, Desire, and Thansamay Selves 8 Courtship, Marriage, and Contested Selves 9 Gender and Modernity, Local and Global Encounters Notes Glossary of Thai Words and Pronunciation Guide References Index
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