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Woman, Man, Bangkok : Love, Sex & Popular Culture in Thailand by Scot Barmé
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Item specifics
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Thailand
- ISBN
- 9780742501577
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0742501574
ISBN-13
9780742501577
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2229213
Product Key Features
Book Title
Woman, Man, Bangkok : Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Ethnic Studies / General, Gender Studies, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science
Book Series
Asia/Pacific/Perspectives Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-058739
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Unlike any other English or Thai language history, Barm?s study puts you on the ground in the always scintillating and often over-stimulating Bangkok, a city characterized by moral and economic extremes as early as the 1910s. His book offers the firsturban social history of Bangkok that also chronicles the formation of Siam's burgeoning middle class and its ideological stances. The sheer amount of detail Barm gleaned from Thai-language newspapers, political cartoons, magazines, film booklets, novels, short stories, and other documentation, make his book a cornucopia of the quotidian. Barm performs a monumental task. He ?peoples? Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused thepopulation of early 20th century Bangkok. Tamara Looss, Barm performs a monumental task. He "peoples" Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused the population of early 20th century Bangkok., Unlike any other English or Thai language history, Barmé's study puts you on theground in the always scintillating and often over-stimulating Bangkok, a citycharacterized by moral and economic extremes as early as the 1910s. His bookoffers the first urban social history of Bangkok that also chronicles theformation of Siam's burgeoning middle class and its ideological stances. Thesheer amount of detail Barmé gleaned from Thai-language newspapers, politicalcartoons, magazines, film booklets, novels, short stories, and otherdocumentation, make his book a cornucopia of the quotidian. Barmé performs amonumental task. He peoples Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy andimmediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused the populationof early 20th century Bangkok.Tamara Loos, "Barmé performs a monumental task. He "peoples" Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused the population of early 20th century Bangkok." -- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies "Unlike any other English or Thai language history, Barmé?s study puts you on the ground in the always scintillating and often over-stimulating Bangkok, a city characterized by moral and economic extremes as early as the 1910s. His book offers the firsturban social history of Bangkok that also chronicles the formation of Siam?s burgeoning middle class and its ideological stances. The sheer amount of detail Barmé gleaned from Thai-language newspapers, political cartoons, magazines, film booklets, novels, short stories, and other documentation, make his book a cornucopia of the quotidian. Barmé performs a monumental task. He ?peoples? Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused thepopulation of early 20th century Bangkok. Tamara Looss" --Tamara Loos, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies "Truly path-breaking. Men still expect to dominate lots of women, while women are expected to be passive and pure. That's why 1920s Bangkok and its gender debates still seem so familiar. Great book." --Chris Baker, Bangkok Post "[A] fresh look at the last decades of absolutist rule....Barme's [be sure to get accent in] prose is very accessible, and with its attractive graphics, this paperback version will be a useful addition to courses on modern Southeast Asia." -- American Historical Review " Woman, Man, Bangkok is an important contribution to an understanding of the intersections of gender, class, sexuality, and nationlism and analytically situates this intersection within an important phase in Thailand's history." -- Journal of Asian Studies "Scot Barme's study of Bangkok is pathbreaking. By focusing on cinema, the press, cartoons, gender, and sexuality a century ago, he produces an original and fascinating picture of social and political change. There is no comparable work on Thailand's social history. No historian will want to ignore his story or his methods. No one will read this book and not have their image of Bangkok and Thailand changed." --Kevin Hewison, City University of Hong Kong "Unlike any other English or Thai language history, Barmé's study puts you on the ground in the always scintillating and often over-stimulating Bangkok, a city characterized by moral and economic extremes as early as the 1910s. His book offers the first urban social history of Bangkok that also chronicles the formation of Siam's burgeoning middle class and its ideological stances. The sheer amount of detail Barmé gleaned from Thai-language newspapers, political cartoons, magazines, film booklets, novels, short stories, and other documentation, make his book a cornucopia of the quotidian. Barmé performs a monumental task. He "peoples" Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused the population of early 20th century Bangkok. Tamara Loos" --Tamara Loos, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Woman, Man, Bangkok is an important contribution to an understanding of the intersections of gender, class, sexuality, and nationlism and analytically situates this intersection within an important phase in Thailand's history., Unlike any other English or Thai language history, Barmé?s study puts you on the ground in the always scintillating and often over-stimulating Bangkok, a city characterized by moral and economic extremes as early as the 1910s. His book offers the firsturban social history of Bangkok that also chronicles the formation of Siam's burgeoning middle class and its ideological stances. The sheer amount of detail Barmé gleaned from Thai-language newspapers, political cartoons, magazines, film booklets, novels, short stories, and other documentation, make his book a cornucopia of the quotidian. Barmé performs a monumental task. He ?peoples? Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused thepopulation of early 20th century Bangkok. Tamara Looss, Unlike any other English or Thai language history, Barmé's study puts you on theground in the always scintillating and often over-stimulating Bangkok, a citycharacterized by moral and economic extremes as early as the 1910s. His bookoffers the first urban social history of Bangkok that also chronicles theformation of Siam's burgeoning middle class and its ideological stances. Thesheer amount of detail Barmé gleaned from Thai-language newspapers, politicalcartoons, magazines, film booklets, novels, short stories, and otherdocumentation, make his book a cornucopia of the quotidian. Barmé performs amonumental task. He "peoples" Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy andimmediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused the populationof early 20th century Bangkok.Tamara Loos, Barmé performs a monumental task. He peoples Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused the population of early 20th century Bangkok., Unlike any other English or Thai language history, Barm ?s study puts you on the ground in the always scintillating and often over-stimulating Bangkok, a city characterized by moral and economic extremes as early as the 1910s. His book offers the firsturban social history of Bangkok that also chronicles the formation of Siam's burgeoning middle class and its ideological stances. The sheer amount of detail Barm gleaned from Thai-language newspapers, political cartoons, magazines, film booklets, novels, short stories, and other documentation, make his book a cornucopia of the quotidian. Barm performs a monumental task. He ?peoples? Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused thepopulation of early 20th century Bangkok. Tamara Looss, Unlike any other English or Thai language history, Barm's study puts you on theground in the always scintillating and often over-stimulating Bangkok, a citycharacterized by moral and economic extremes as early as the 1910s. His bookoffers the first urban social history of Bangkok that also chronicles theformation of Siam's burgeoning middle class and its ideological stances. Thesheer amount of detail Barm gleaned from Thai-language newspapers, politicalcartoons, magazines, film booklets, novels, short stories, and otherdocumentation, make his book a cornucopia of the quotidian. Barm performs amonumental task. He "peoples" Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy andimmediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused the populationof early 20th century Bangkok.Tamara Loos, Truly path-breaking. Men still expect to dominate lots of women, while women are expected to be passive and pure. That's why 1920s Bangkok and its gender debates still seem so familiar. Great book., [A] fresh look at the last decades of absolutist rule....Barme's [be sure to get accent in] prose is very accessible, and with its attractive graphics, this paperback version will be a useful addition to courses on modern Southeast Asia., Scot Barme's study of Bangkok is pathbreaking. By focusing on cinema, the press, cartoons, gender, and sexuality a century ago, he produces an original and fascinating picture of social and political change. There is no comparable work on Thailand's social history. No historian will want to ignore his story or his methods. No one will read this book and not have their image of Bangkok and Thailand changed., Barmé performs a monumental task. He "peoples" Siam, bringing it to life with a vibrancy and immediacy by parading before us the issues and images that roused the population of early 20th century Bangkok.
Dewey Decimal
306.7/09593
Table Of Content
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Proto-feminist Discourses in Early Twentieth Century Siam Chapter 3 Cinema, Film and the Growth of National Culture Under Absolutism Chapter 4 In and around the Cinema: Romance and Sex in the City Chapter 5 Visually Challenged: Graphic Critiques of the Royal-Noble Elite Chapter 6 Evocations of Equality: Female Education and Employment Chapter 7 A Question of Polygamy Chapter 8 Bourgeois Love and Morality: Gender Relations Redefined Chapter 9 Romance and Desire in Film and Fiction Chapter 10 Gender, Class, and Popular Culture in Post-absolutist Siam: 1932-1940 Chapter 11 Conclusion
Synopsis
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 mass culture, this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand., 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., 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 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 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.
LC Classification Number
HQ801.A3B37 2002
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