ISBN: 9780520937437

Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provoc… More...

Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city. The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years. Using innovative case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets—department stores, go-go bars, a popular downtown mall, a telecommunications company, and the direct sales corporations Amway and Avon—Wilson chronicles the powerful expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to create new kinds of lifestyles, ranging from tomboys to corporate tycoons to sex workers. Combining feminist theory with classic anthropological understandings of exchange, this historically grounded ethnography maps the reverberations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity at the hub of Bangkok's modern economy. Digital Content>E-books>Social Sciences>Asian Studies>Southeast Asian Studies., University of California Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780520937437

Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provoc… More...

Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city. The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years. Using innovative case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets—department stores, go-go bars, a popular downtown mall, a telecommunications company, and the direct sales corporations Amway and Avon—Wilson chronicles the powerful expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to create new kinds of lifestyles, ranging from "tomboys" to corporate tycoons to sex workers. Combining feminist theory with classic anthropological understandings of exchange, this historically grounded ethnography maps the reverberations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity at the hub of Bangkok's modern economy. University of California Press Sociology 9780520237834 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English Social Sciences, University of California Press<

2004, ISBN: 9780520937437

Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: University of California Press], [ED: 1], University of California Press, 2004

2004, ISBN: 9780520937437

Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: University of California Press], [ED: 1], University of California Press, 2004

2004, ISBN: 9780520937437

Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City, [ED: 1], eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: University of California Press]