Materializing Thailand

by Penny van Esterik

Book Overview

Thailand has become well known throughout the world for wonderful cuisine, great package holidays, sumptuous temples and textiles. Noticeably absent from glossy tourist brochures but equally well known throughout the Western world is Thailand's seedier side - the world of child exploitation, rampant prostitution and AIDS. Thailand maintains its appeal by slipping the ugly and painful out of sight and by promoting women as exotic visual icons through...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859733069
• ISBN13: 9781859733066
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"