Queer Bangkok [electronic resource] : 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights /
Jackson, Peter A.
Aberdeen, Hong Kong : Hong Kong Univ. Press ; Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books,
2011.
This book provides a systematical analysis of all available social and demographic data released by the Chinese government. Additional to western literature, this book provides a good review of relevant research literature published in Chinese. With anacademic background of sociology and demography, the author focuses his analyses on various issues such as migration, marriage, income, consumption and education.
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Contents; Contributors; A Note on Thai Transcription and Citation of Thai Names; Queer Bangkok after the Millennium: Beyond Twentieth-Century Paradigms; I - Markets and Media in Bangkok's Queer Cultural Transformations; 1 - Bangkok's Early Twenty-First-Century Queer Boom; 2 - Competing Cultures of Masculinity When Thai Transgender Bodies Go Through Muay Thai; 3 - Back in the Spotlight: The Cinematic Regime of Representation of Kathoeys and Gay Men in Thailand; 4 - Loves of Siam: Contemporary Thai Cinema and Vernacular Queerness
5 - Encounters in the Sauna: Exploring Gay Identity and Power Structures in Gay Places in Bangkok6 - Cyberspace, Power Structures, and Gay Sexual Health: The Sexuality of Thai Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in the Camfrog On-line Web-cam Chat Rooms; II - Queer Bangkok in Twenty-First-Century Global and Regional Flows; 7 - The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: "Race", Labour, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics; 8 - Bangkok's Beautiful Men: Images of Thai Liberality in an Indonesian Gay Novel; 9 - Speaking of Bangkok: Thailand in the History of Gay Singapore
III: LGBT Activism, Rights, and Autonomy in Thailand10 - Capitalism, LGBT Activism, and Queer Autonomy in Thailand; 11 - The Language of Rights, Deviance, and Pleasure: Organizational Responses to Discourses of Same-Sex Sexuality and Transgenderism in Thailand; 12 - The Rainbow Lobby: The Sexual Diversity Network and the Military-Installed Government in Thailand; 13 - Transpeople (Khon kham-phet) in Thailand: Transprejudice, Exclusion, and the Presumption of Mental Illness; Notes; A Glossary of Thai LGBT Terms; Bibliography; Index
This book provides a systematical analysis of all available social and demographic data released by the Chinese government. Additional to western literature, this book provides a good review of relevant research literature published in Chinese. With anacademic background of sociology and demography, the author focuses his analyses on various issues such as migration, marriage, income, consumption and education.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Sexual minorities
Sexual minorities
Sexual minorities
Mass media and gays