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Intimate Knowledge: Women and Their Health in North-East Thailand

Intimate Knowledge: Women and Their Health in North-East Thailand


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Intimate Knowledge provides a vivid and original study of what it means to be a woman in a village in rural Thailand. As a study on health this book concentrates upon the intimacies of women's bodies while simultaneously exploring how experiences of health and illness are shaped by the wider context of the developing Thai state. The book addresses the broad forces impacting on women's health, discussing gender relations in Thai society, migration and work, the effects of poverty and uneven development. This work also makes accessible some complex theoretical issues using rich ethnographic detail to discuss approaches to the body and embodiment, agency and resistance, the effects of development and modernity. It illustrates the tensions between what is seen as 'traditional' and 'modern' knowledge and practices and the ways in which these are understood to align poverty and underdevelopment with ethnic and cultural difference. All of these issues are illustrated through chapters covering a wide range of women's health experiences, gynaecological problems, STDs/HIV, family planning and maternity, and the controversy of abortion within a Buddhist nation. Women's voices feature throughout the book, telling of the intimacies of their lives and bringing to life the ramifications of broader social forces and policies in Thai society.

Table of Contents:
Plates Figure, Tables and Map Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: fevers of poverty 2. Women of Isan 3. Contesting bodies of knowledge: health and healing 4. Intimate knowledge, wombs and flow 5. Many children, little land 6. Bearing tradition and modernity 7. More painful than birth: abortion Appendix 1: Data collection methods used Appendix 2: Survey of medicines available for sale in six general stores in Ban Srisaket, Roi Et, 1992 Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Andrea Whittaker is a medical anthropologist who has conducted extensive research on health and illness both in Thailand and Australia. In Thailand she conducted eighteen months ethnography in a remote rural village studying community understandings of health and illness. Her current position is as Australian Research Council Fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. She is soon to commence a position as Research Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ANU.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781865082165
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen & Unwin
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Weight: 360 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1865082163
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Women and Their Health in North-East Thailand
  • Width: 140 mm


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