Woman, Man, Bangkok: Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand

by Scot Barme

Book Overview

Scot BarmZ mines a rich lode of previously ignored cultural ephemera found in popular newspapers, magazines, novels, short stories, film booklets, and cartoons to create a vibrant cultural history of early modern Thailand that moves radically beyond conventional, elite-based historical studies of the period. By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms, and the growth of a commercial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742501574
• ISBN13: 9780742501577
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"