Queer Bangkok : twenty-first-century markets, media, and rights / edited by Peter A. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Peter A.

Series:

Queer Asia.

Queer Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--Thailand--Bangkok--History--21st century--Congresses.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--Thailand--Bangkok--Social conditions--21st century--Congresses.

Sexual minorities--Civil rights--Thailand--Bangkok--Congresses.

Mass media and gay people--Thailand--Bangkok--Congresses.

Mass media and gay people.

LGBTQ+ people.

LGBTQ+ civil rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

first edition.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 Bangkok 6 - 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 Thailand 10 - 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

Notes:

"This collection emerges from papers presented in the genders and sexualities stream of panels convened as part of the Tenth International Conference of Thai Studies at Thammasat University in Bankok in January 2008".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789882207325

9882207324

9789888053728

9888053728

OCLC:

763161258