Complete Catalogue Spring Summer 2002 UBCPressand Agencies

Gender Studies
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ALSO OF INTEREST
Travels in the Skin Trade
Tourism and the Sex Industry
2nd ed.
Jeremy Seabrook
2001
ISBN 0-7453-1756-1
paper, $33.95 CRO
Pluto Press
Genders and Sexualities in Modern
Thailand
Edited by Peter A. Jackson and Nerida
M. Cook
2000
ISBN 974-7551-07-1
paper, $40.95 CRO
Silkworm Books
OTHER NEW BOOKS YOU’LL WANT
Modern Women
Modernizing Men
The Changing Missions of
Three Professional Women
in Asia and Africa, 1902-69
Ruth Compton Brouwer
See page 22 for complete listing
Women and the White
Man’s God
Gender and Race in the
Canadian Mission Field
Myra Rutherdale
See page 23 for complete listing
Sex and Borders
Gender, National Identity,
and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
Leslie Ann Jeffrey
Prostitution in Thailand has been the subject of
media sensationalism for decades. Bangkok’s brothels
have become international icons of “third world”
women’s exploitation in the global sex trade.
Recently, however, sex workers have begun to
demand not pity, but rights as workers in the global
economy.
This book explores how Thai national identity in such
an economy is linked to prostitution and gender.
Jeffrey asserts that certain images of “The Prostitute”
have silenced discourses of prostitution as
work, while fostering the idea of the peasant woman
as the embodiment of national culture. This idea,
coupled with a will to shape the modern state
through the behaviour of middle-class men, has been
a main concern of Thai prostitution policy. Gender,
Jeffrey argues, has become the mechanism through
which states respond to the contradictory pressures
of globalization and nation-building.
Sex and Borders is essential reading for those interested
in gender studies, Southeast Asian studies,
and the politics of prostitution.
Leslie Ann Jeffrey teaches Political Science in the
Department of History and Politics, University of New
Brunswick, Saint John campus.
March
224 pages, 6 x 9”
ISBN 0-7748-0872-1
hardcover, $80.00
Driven Apart
Women’s Employment
Equality and Child Care in
Canadian Public Policy
Annis May Timpson
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