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| Thai Women In The Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Beth Mills
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 668630
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 218
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 081352654X
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.41279593
EAN: 9780813526546
ASIN: 081352654X
Publication Date: September 1999
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Product Description
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.
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