The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City Paperback - 2004
by Ara Wilson
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"Wilson shows us how global dreams come to life in the cacophony of Bangkok's markets. Business tycoons, sex workers, mall strollers, and penny capitalists: Each forms an exemplary figure, a source of reflection and emulation. In this engrossing work, the women and men of Bangkok produce themselves--and the global economy. I have seen no better ethnography of globalization."--Anna Tsing, author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
"This fascinating book draws together the strands that weave intimate and kinship worlds into the fabric of the modern Thai economy. From floating markets to department stores and go-go bars, Wilson's inquiry reveals the gendered practices that sustain economic domains, and how these commercial venues in turn recast the intimate life. Upending stereotypical notions about Thai gender, Intimate Economies casts a complex, feminist perspective on the new styles of being emerging in the spaces of global capitalism."--Aihwa Ong, author of Buddha Is Hiding
"Wilson brilliantly deciphers the ways intimate lives--personas, subjectivities, relations--are involved in the formation of modern and transnational capitalist markets. To do this she carefully unpacks the social infrastructure of five different globalized markets in Bangkok."--Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and Aliens
"Offers something rare and valuable in studies of globalization--a fine-grained ethnography at the intersection of capitalist and non-capitalist economies. In Ara Wilson's fascinating study of urban Thailand, the sex trade is intertwined with the gift economy, the department store with the kin economy. Navigating this often surprising terrain with unusual agility, Wilson has produced a masterful record of new worlds and new subjects in the making."--Julie Graham, co-author of The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy
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- Title The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City
- Author Ara Wilson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date 2004-07-19
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520239685 / 0520239687
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.16 x 0.7 in (22.91 x 15.65 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Women's Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Globalization, Women - Thailand - Social conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003012772
- Dewey Decimal Code 381.109
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- Choice, 12/01/2004, Page 701
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