Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle - Rilegato

Bishop, Ryan; Robinson, Lillian S.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0415914280 ISBN 13: 9780415914284

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

Riassunto

In Thailand, a $4 billion per year tourist industry is the linchpin of the modernization process called the "Thai Economic Miracle". And what is Thailand's main attraction? Sex for hire. Year after year young women are lured to Bangkok to staff the teeming brothels, massage parlors, and sex bars that cater to male tourists from the United States, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, the Gulf States, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Developed from Lillian S. Robinson's article in The Nation, Night Market traces the historical, cultural, material, and textual traditions that have combined in unique ways to establish sex tourism as an integral part of the developing Thai economy. It explores international sex tourism from the perspectives of economic-development planning, forced labor market choices, international sexual alienation, and textual traditions that have constructed sexual "Other" cultures in Western imagination.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415914280
• ISBN 13: 9780415914284
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288