Book
Thai rural women and agricultural change: approaches and a case study
Women's Studies Programme, Chulalongkorn University, Social Research Institute • Bangkok • Published In 1987 • Pages: iiA, 75
By: Napat Sirisambhand, Gordon, Alec.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is both a general and case study of women's roles and status in Thailand. The authors briefly examine the myth of traditional women's equality, the sexist ideology of Thai Theravada Buddhism, sexist proverbs and language use, historical legal accounts on women's status, division of labor, and rights to land. Historically, because of the heavy corvee on men's labor, women have always worked in the fields; and because of plentiful land, women have inherited land. However, since the 1950s, increasing population density, land scarcity, commercialization of agriculture, and non-farm wage labor, have influenced a widening gap in rural incomes and the authors find that women's roles and status varies most across income classes. Women in poorer households continue to work in the fields and control the family budget, whereas better-off women have retired into the home, enjoy more leisure time, and have adopted an attitude of weakness with respect to men. The appendix includes a breakdown of major work activities by task and gender.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Production and supply
- Income and demand
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Household
- Theological systems
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Central Thai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1985-1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1987
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pak Chong District, Thailand
- NotesAdditional notes
- Napat Sirisambhand, Alec Gordon
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-75)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Thais