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

Informationen zum Autor By Scot Barmé Klappentext Scot Barm 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 mass culture! this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Scot Barme, Scot Barmé, BARME SCOT
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2002
• EAN: 9780742501560
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0156-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives; Asian Voices (Hardcover); Asia/Pacific/Perspectives; Asian Voices (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Thailand, Cultural Studies, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History