Heather Montgomery 
Modern Babylon? [EPUB ebook] 
Prostituting Children in Thailand

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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.

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List of Tables
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

关于作者


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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