Woman Man Bangkok

Scot BarmZ mines a rich lode of previously ignored cultural ephemera found in popular newspapers magazines novels short stories film booklets and cartoons to create a vibrant cultural history of early modern Thailand that moves radically beyond conventional elite-based historical studies of the period. By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women relations between the sexes class antagonisms and the growth of a commercial mass culture this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand.