Woman, Man, Bangkok : Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand Hardback
by Scot Barme
Part of the Asia/Pacific/Perspectives series
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During the early decades of the twentieth century, Thailand's capital, Bangkok, took on an increasingly cosmopolitan character-a development fueled both by global economic forces and a local revolution in communications.
The 1920s were a particularly dynamic period of social and cultural transformation that had a profound impact on the development of Thai modernity.
This book examines the growth of a polyphonous and often vociferous Thai public, a public that used a range of new media outlets to express themselves and clamor for a more just and equitable social order. Scot Barmé 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 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 mass culture, this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand.
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- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:21/07/2002
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- ISBN:9780742501560
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:21/07/2002
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- ISBN:9780742501560