Modern Babylon?

Prostituting Children in Thailand

Heather Montgomery (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2002
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-57181-829-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

A Personal View

Child Prostitution and Anthropology

Chapter 1. History and Context

Myths and Stereotypes

NGOs and the Discovery of Child Prostitution

The Extent of the Problem

History and Myth

Chapter 2. Cultural Constructions of Childhood

A History of Childhood in the West

Childhood in Thailand

What Constitutes a Good Childhood?

Childhood and State Intervention

Chapter 3. The Child Prostitutes of Baan Nua

Data Collection

Child Prostitution in Baan Nua

Kinship and Reciprocity

Reciprocity, Friends and Clients

Chapter 4. Struggles and Contradictions

Children as Social Agents

Prostitution and its Alternatives

The Life-Cycle of Prostitution

Chapter 5. Identity and its Difficulties

Status

Sexuality and Identity

Gender, Prostitution and Identity

Social Identity

Chapter 6. Protecting Innocence

Innocence and Freedom

Buying Innocence

Maintaining Innocence

Chapter 7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.1.2002
Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Verlagsort	Herndon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	381 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-57181-829-4 / 1571818294
ISBN-13	978-1-57181-829-4 / 9781571818294
Zustand	Neuware