Woman between Two Kingdoms Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand

• Autor principal: Castro-Woodhouse, Leslie (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Cornell University Press 2021
• Assuntos: Asian history; Gender studies: women; Biography: general; history; Asia; South East Asia; social science; women's studies; gender studies; women & girls; biography & autobiography; women; biography; Thai royal concubines, Siam royal consorts, women in Thai history, Lanna history, Thai crypto-colonialism, King Chulalongkorn's reign
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Resumo

"Woman Between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam in Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and nation. Thought of as a ""harem"" by the West, Siam's Inner Palace actually formed a nexus between the domestic and the political. Dara's role as an ethnic ""other"" among the royal concubines assisted the Siamese in both consolidating the kingdom's territory and building a local version of Europe's hierarchy of civilizations. Dara Rasami's story provides a fresh perspective on both the socio-political roles played by Siamese palace women, and how Siam responded to the intense imperialist pressures it faced in the late nineteenth century."

Descrição Física

1 electronic resource (193 p.)

ISBN

pq1f-t958

Acesso

Open Access