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Woman between Two Kingdoms Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand / Leslie Castro-Woodhouse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castro-Woodhouse, Leslie, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia.
- Sex role--Political aspects.
- Sex role.
- Polygyny.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnicity--Thailand--History--20th century.
- Ethnicity--Thailand--History--19th century.
- Polygyny--Thailand--History--20th century.
- Polygyny--Thailand--History--19th century.
- Sex role--Political aspects--Thailand--History--20th century.
- Sex role--Political aspects--Thailand--History--19th century.
- Thailand.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2021
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "A study of Princess Dara Rasami, one of 153 royal consorts to the king of Thailand, that reveals the central roles played by women in the political dynamics of both the nascent Thai nation and Southeast Asia, shedding light on ethnic difference and gender relations in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Thailand"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introducing Lan Na, the inland constellation, and Siam
- Dara Rasami's career in the Siamese royal palace
- Performing identity and ethnicity in the Siamese court
- Inventing Lan Na "tradition" and Dara Rasami's legacy
- Intertwined fates: monarchy, women's bodies, and the Thai state.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5017-5552-8
- OCLC:
- 1163957406
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