Changes in social and economic relations among rural women in Northern Thailand
| dc.contributor.author | Ames, Angeline | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Warburton, Rennie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-10T23:38:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-10T23:38:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research explores various changes which have taken place in social and economic relations among rural women in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. It mainly focuses on the income-generating activities of Northern rural Thai women which are aimed at improving their social and economic wellbeing. Based on field work and interviews with selected members from five rural women’s economic development projects in Chiang Mai Province, changes in social and economic relations and how the projects have benefitted Northern rural Thai women are presented in the following manner. Members' social and economic relations are examined within the context of capitalist-patriarchy which continues to produce exploitative and oppressive relations in many developing regions around the world. However, I suggest that forms of rural women' s economic development are taking place in Northern Thailand outside of mainstream capitalist development. Within this context, I conclude that rural Thai women are benefitting from the five economic projects presented in this thesis as they continue to achieve moderate income levels, leadership roles, control over their own finances, employment in rural areas, and resistance to patriarchy and the negative consequences of global capitalism. This kind of rural women' s economic activity is seen as an alternative to the mainstream processes of economic development and is a form of resistance to capitalist-patriarchy and its devastating consequences. | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22856 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | |
| dc.subject.department | Department of Sociology | |
| dc.title | Changes in social and economic relations among rural women in Northern Thailand | |
| dc.type | Thesis |