Beauty as risk for Karen girls: Expulsion and early marriage at an upland Thai school

Female adolescent sexuality is highly policed at upland Thai schools, particularly for students who teachers identify as ‘beautiful’. While Northern Thai cultural ideals of masculinity glorify the ‘wandering’ of male youth, girls are told that it is especially important that they postpone sexual act...

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Main Author: O’Meara, Dayne (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2021
In: The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 2021, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 102-115
Further subjects:B EARLY MARRIAGE
B Karen
B Gender
B Thailand
B school expulsion
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