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The intimate economies of Bangkok [[electronic resource] ] : tomboys, tycoons, and Avon ladies in the global city / / Ara Wilson



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Autore: Wilson Ara Visualizza persona
Titolo: The intimate economies of Bangkok [[electronic resource] ] : tomboys, tycoons, and Avon ladies in the global city / / Ara Wilson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina: 381/.1/09593
Soggetto topico: Sex role - Thailand - Bangkok
Capitalism - Social aspects - Thailand - Bangkok
Globalization
Women - Thailand - Social conditions
Women - Thailand - Economic conditions
Soggetto non controllato: amway
anthropological study
anthropologists
avon ladies
avon
bangkok
business relationships
capitalism
case studies
commerce and business
contemporary bangkok
department stores
economic boom
economic development
economic expansion
economic history
ethnographers
ethnography
feminist theory
global economy
globalization
gogo bars
identities
malls
modern lifestyles
modern markets
private life
public life
sex workers
telecommunications
textbooks
thai society
thailand
tomboys
tycoons
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes On Transliteration And Dates -- Introduction: Intimate Economies -- 1. From Shophouse To Department Store -- 2. The Economies Of Intimacy In The Go-Go Bar -- 3. MBK: The Retail Revolution And The Infrastructure Of Romance -- 4. The Flexible Citizens Of IBC Cable TV -- 5. The Avon Lady, The Amway Plan, And The Making Of Thai Entrepreneurs -- Conclusion: The Intimacy Of Capitalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city. The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years. Using innovative case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets-department stores, go-go bars, a popular downtown mall, a telecommunications company, and the direct sales corporations Amway and Avon-Wilson chronicles the powerful expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to create new kinds of lifestyles, ranging from "tomboys" to corporate tycoons to sex workers. Combining feminist theory with classic anthropological understandings of exchange, this historically grounded ethnography maps the reverberations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity at the hub of Bangkok's modern economy.
Titolo autorizzato: The intimate economies of Bangkok  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35976-2
9786612359767
0-520-93743-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778486503321
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