Marjorie Muecke
Biographic Data
| ID | 738293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie Muecke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie |
| FAMILY NAME | Muecke |
| SIGNATURE | MUECKE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Department of Psychosocial and Community Health , School of Nursing |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Female Sexuality in Thai Discourses about Maechii (‘lay nuns’)
By examining competing discourses about women who are maechii (or 'lay nuns') in Buddhist Thai society, this paper demonstrates that, although maechii vow to be celibate, social constructions of their role are grounded in sexuality. The discourses examined are those of the Buddhist canon and Sangha (Order of Monkhood), the Thai Maechii Institute, the mass media, and the government. The analysis is supplemented with field observations and intervie…
Women's Work: Volunteer Aids Care Giving in Northern Thailand
Because persons with AIDS in Thailand usually are cared for by their families, and because government AIDS policy relies upon this assistance for the care of the country's sick, the research reported here addressed the questions: Who are the home and community care givers for PWA? What kind of care do they give? And, What is the impact of care giving on the care giver(s)? Informants were drawn in 1998-99 from a long-term birth cohort study of a n…
Health of the World's Women Weighed in Beijing
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Health of the World's Women Weighed in Beijing
Women's Work: Volunteer Aids Care Giving in Northern Thailand
Because persons with AIDS in Thailand usually are cared for by their families, and because government AIDS policy relies upon this assistance for the care of the country's sick, the research reported here addressed the questions: Who are the home and community care givers for PWA? What kind of care do they give? And, What is the impact of care giving on the care giver(s)? Informants were drawn in 1998-99 from a long-term birth cohort study of a n…
Female Sexuality in Thai Discourses about Maechii (‘lay nuns’)
By examining competing discourses about women who are maechii (or 'lay nuns') in Buddhist Thai society, this paper demonstrates that, although maechii vow to be celibate, social constructions of their role are grounded in sexuality. The discourses examined are those of the Buddhist canon and Sangha (Order of Monkhood), the Thai Maechii Institute, the mass media, and the government. The analysis is supplemented with field observations and intervie…
Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 works) · Beijing (1 works) · Buddhism (1 works) · Cambodian History and Society (1 works) · Celibacy (1 works) · China (1 works) · Citation (1 works)