Women's Studies Center articles from January 1 2002

Women's Studies Center archives from January 1 2002

Editorial note.(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... Happy New Year, greetings for 2003 from all of us at the WSC! Yet another year has passed us by. Though we may often wish for the immediate ability to grasp the true effects and impacts of our work on society, all we can do is continue to be...

Desiring constructs: transforming sex/gender orders in twentieth-century Thailand.
January 1, 2002... Thailand (formerly Siam) has long been a site of fascination for Westerners. Despite a long history of interaction with neighboring Asian societies and in recent centuries with the West, Thailand remains distinctive within one of the most...

Courtship methods.
January 1, 2002... Courting has traditionally been an important stage in the mate selection process, particularly in the case of love matches. The relationship between a Thai woman and her lover has usually been based on the woman's chronic fear of the man's...

Must we have this virginity nonsense.
January 1, 2002... Horror of horrors! Thai girls are defecting shamelessly from the sacred virginity tenet. Women's promiscuity is a social threat. And it's time to whip them back into line. That was how the Education Ministry reacted to a poll which shows...

Thai teens and sex.
January 1, 2002... By comparing statistics from Thailand's Public Health Ministry to the results of a study from North Carolina University at Charlotte, it appears that Thai youth are becoming sexually active at an earlier age than youth in many Western...

Magic lipstick and verbal caress: doubling standards in Isan villages.
January 1, 2002... Taking on gender is not possible at a moment's notice, but is a subtle and strategic project, laborious and for the most part covert. (Judith Butler: Gender Trouble) I had reasons of my own for wanting to probe the mental worlds of men...

No man, no cry: when it comes to marriage, an increasing number of educated Thai women are just saying no--but the quest for independence and equal opportunity is no easy option.
January 1, 2002... More and more educated Thai women these days have chosen to remain single. Nida, for example, is 49 and a successful public relations manager. Her mother believes her daughter's life is incomplete because she is unmarried. "Since childhood, I...

Why don't they marry: never-married women in Thailand.
January 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Thailand is currently undergoing major economic changes, transitioning from a largely agrarian society to a more industrialized and urbanized nation. Although this process started in the 1930's, it has been especially rapid...

Why Thai women opt to go it alone.
January 1, 2002... In this April 16th 1997 Bangkok Post article, Sanitsuda Ekachai discusses single parenting and life after divorce. If you believe a Thai woman will automatically receive child support and alimony after a divorce, then you are an incurable...

Amend family law urgently.
January 1, 2002... Yet another Bangkok Post article written by Sanitsuda Ekachai, this one dated October 10th 1996. In it, Sanitsuda discusses some of the discrimination that exists in the Thai legal system. What would you do if you were a career woman with...

Conjugal and parental roles: a behavioral look into the past and present.
January 1, 2002... The following is by Bencha Yoddumnern-Attig, from the book Changing Roles and Statuses of Women in Thailand: A Documentary Assessment (1992). Bencha is the Director of the Institute for Population and Social Research at Mahidol University....

Wives' views on the extramarital sexual behavior of Thai men.
January 1, 2002... 1. Introduction The AIDS virus is now affecting more and more married women and children in Thailand. One of the main reasons for this is due to the patronage of commercial sex workers by Thai men. Little research has focused on married...

Adultery is for women only.
January 1, 2002... Don't believe what other people say, especially those rambling feminists. Thai men have never committed adultery. They never tan. And that is official. This fact came to light when the National Commission on Women's Affairs, the advocacy...