Modern Babylon?: Prostituting Children in Thailand Contributor(s): Montgomery, Heather (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571813187 ISBN-13: 9781571813183 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Children's Studies - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 306.745 |
LCCN: 2001049936 |
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural P |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over cemmercially sexually exploited children rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked as prostitutes consulted of questioned in this process, and the voices of these children brought into focus. This book is the first to address the children directly, to examine their daily lives, their motivations and their perceptions of what they do. Based on 15 months of fieldwork in a Thai tourist community that survived through child prostitution, this book draws on anthropological theories on childhood and kinship to contextualize the experiences of this group of Thai child prostitutes and to contrast these with the stereotypes held of them by those outside their community. |
Contributor Bio(s): Montgomery, Heather: - Heather Montgomery is a member of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and a British Academy Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. She has recently been appointed Lecturer in Child Studies at the Open University. |