Women's Studies Center articles

Recent articles from Women's Studies Center

Sex education: at many all-girls schools, sexuality is still a taboo subject. But some experts are saying that it's about time teachers swotted up on the subject.
January 1, 2003... The following is a May 13, 1998 Bangkok Post article written by Karnjariya Sukrung. As the debate continues as to whether genetics or environment is most influential in forming a child's sexuality, schools have come under the spotlight for their role in influencing and educating...

Lesbians in Thailand speak out.
January 1, 2003... The following of which the author is unknown, appeared in Pink Ink (Vol 1. No 7. April, 1998). Lesbian issues were in the spotlight last month when the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand hosted a discussion night on March 18 at its plush premises high above Bangkok. Fielding...

Into the light: the Thai lesbian movement takes a step forward.
January 1, 2003... The following article originally appeared in Women in Action (3:1998). It was written by Andrew Matzner, a writer/researcher from the United States, who has been living in northern Thailand since October of 1997. His areas of interest and expertise are gender, sexuality, and transgenderism....

Toward a struggle against invisibility: love between women in Thailand.
January 1, 2003... The following article, written by Took Took Thongthiraj, originally appeared in Amerasia Journal 20:1 (1994). Reprinted by permission of UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press. Lesbian-like relationships and lifestyles exist in Thailand, yet many Western (often male) analysts of Thai...

Editorial note.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... We are very excited about this issue because to our knowledge, it is the first and only compilation of its kind! The theme of this particular collation of articles is lesbians and lesbianism in Thailand, and the fact that there is only one lesbian organization in the whole of Thailand...