Contemporary Southeast Asia
and the expansion of local Thai gay and lesbian markets on Thai queer identity
Readers will find insightful and enriching contributions that consider how gender relations in Asia — and indeed the very meaning of gender itself — are affected by neo‐liberalism
Sinnott is presently an instructor at the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University
Like male veterans in America and Vietnam
National Identity and Its Defenders: Thailand Today election Contemporary Southeast AsiaThe first edition of this book was hailed as original and challenging in its analyses of Thai national identity. The topic is today no less worthy of discussion and comment. The essays boldly offer insights into the formation of Thai identity from the perspectives of history, political science, anthropology, linguistics, social psychology, human geography, and media and religious studies. Written in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, a