Mary Beth Mills
Biographic Data
| ID | 76146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Beth Mills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mills |
| SIGNATURE | MILLS M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 348 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cookbook confidential: Global appetites, culinary fantasies, and Thai food
Thai cookbooks offer a productive lens for examining the inequalities at work in contemporary processes of cultural commodification. In the past, these ethnic cookbooks often imagined their non-Thai readers’ encounters with Thai cuisine in sharply hierarchical terms, crafting neo-colonial fantasies that normalized cosmopolitan appetites for cultural difference. Today, English-language Thai cookbooks remain similarly entangled in a global hierarch…
Gendered Morality Tales: Discourses of Gender, Labour, and Value in Globalising Asia
Across Asia, the pursuit of national and global capital accumulation has relied on flexible, feminised work forces and patriarchal models of social reproduction. These gendered patterns of production and reproduction, while central to Asia’s neoliberal ‘miracle’ economies, have also generated powerful discourses that devalue women and their work. Drawing on case studies from across the region, this paper examines the links between these globalisi…
Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies
Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing by Teri L. Caraway
Engendering discourses of displacement: Contesting mobility and marginality in rural Thailand
In Northeast Thailand gendered patterns of labor migration insert rural residents into privileged sites of national and international progress; yet, migrants and their families remain marginalized within dominant constructions of contemporary Thai modernity and development. This article explores these lived contradictions of labor mobility through the ethnographic analysis of one sending community, focusing on local discourses of, and about, the …
From Nimble Fingers to Raised Fists: Women and Labor Activism in Globalizing Thailand
Gender and Inequality in the Global Labor Force
This review examines the convergence of recent anthropological interests in gender, labor, and globalization. Attention to gender and gender inequality offers a productive strategy for the analysis of globalizing processes and their local variations and contestations. Contemporary ethnographic research explores multiple dimensions of labor and gender inequalities in the global economy: gendered patterns of labor recruitment and discipline, the tr…
Rural-Urban Obfuscations: Thinking about urban anthropology and labor migration in Thailand
The 2000 SUNTA Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology was awarded to Mary Beth Mills for Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves (1999). The book traces the movement of young women from rural Thailand into urban wage employment, primarily in the capital city of Bangkok. In her analysis Mills explores migration as one of the complex structures that link rural and urban places into a single social formation as w…
Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers
Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers. James E. Roberson. London: Routledge Press, 1998. vii 227 pp., illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index
Thai women in the global labor force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
Enacting Solidarity: Unions and migrant youth in Thailand
This article examines the activities of some young migrant workers, participants in Thailand's labor movement, and their strategies for solidarity in the face of economic insecurity. Activities sponsored by some independent Bangkok unions and labor solidarity groups draw upon both 'modern' urban commercial forms as well as 'traditional' ritual practices to promote class-based unity within a predominantly youthful and migrant labor force. Though l…
Migrant Labor Takes a Holiday: Reworking modernity and marginality in contemporary Thailand
This paper examines the practice of working-class group excursions in Thailand, organized by and for rural labor migrants in Bangkok. These trips involve traditional forms of Buddhist ceremonial as well as more self-consciously 'modern' sightseeing activities in distant regions of the country. More than just a welcome respite from the drudgery and discipline of factory jobs, these excursions allow labor migrants to make important claims about the…
Women and Kinship: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and South-East Asia. Leela Dube
The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village
The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village. MICHAEL R. RHUM. Center for Southeast Asian Studies Special Reports, 29. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1994. vi + 202 pp., charts, diagrams, notes, appendix, glossary, bibliography
Gendered encounters with modernity: Labor migrants and marriage choices in contemporary Thailand
This paper explores some of the tensions that arise in the course of young Thai women's rural‐urban labor migration. The rapid expansion of urban (and especially Bangkok‐based) manufacturing in contemporary Thailand targets young rural women as its primary labor force, a process that both relies on and challenges conventional gender relations and ideals. The experience of labor mobility engages migrants not only in national and transnational rela…
Contesting the margins of modernity: Women, migration, and consumption in Thailand
Rural women who move to Bangkok for employment confront significant social and economic constraints as low-wage, low-status migrant labor; yet experiences of exploitation in the workplace are widely mediated by aspirations for and participation in new patterns of commodity consumption. In this article, I examine these consumption practices as important sites of cultural struggle in which young women seek to construct new identities and contest th…
The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia. CHARLES F. Keyes
Ecology and Practical Technology: Peasant Farming Systems in Thailand. SHIGEHARU Tanabe
Contesting the margins of modernity: Women, migration, and consumption in Thailand
Rural women who move to Bangkok for employment confront significant social and economic constraints as low-wage, low-status migrant labor; yet experiences of exploitation in the workplace are widely mediated by aspirations for and participation in new patterns of commodity consumption. In this article, I examine these consumption practices as important sites of cultural struggle in which young women seek to construct new identities and contest th…
Gender and Inequality in the Global Labor Force
This review examines the convergence of recent anthropological interests in gender, labor, and globalization. Attention to gender and gender inequality offers a productive strategy for the analysis of globalizing processes and their local variations and contestations. Contemporary ethnographic research explores multiple dimensions of labor and gender inequalities in the global economy: gendered patterns of labor recruitment and discipline, the tr…
Thai women in the global labor force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
Migrant Labor Takes a Holiday: Reworking modernity and marginality in contemporary Thailand
This paper examines the practice of working-class group excursions in Thailand, organized by and for rural labor migrants in Bangkok. These trips involve traditional forms of Buddhist ceremonial as well as more self-consciously 'modern' sightseeing activities in distant regions of the country. More than just a welcome respite from the drudgery and discipline of factory jobs, these excursions allow labor migrants to make important claims about the…
Enacting Solidarity: Unions and migrant youth in Thailand
This article examines the activities of some young migrant workers, participants in Thailand's labor movement, and their strategies for solidarity in the face of economic insecurity. Activities sponsored by some independent Bangkok unions and labor solidarity groups draw upon both 'modern' urban commercial forms as well as 'traditional' ritual practices to promote class-based unity within a predominantly youthful and migrant labor force. Though l…
From Nimble Fingers to Raised Fists: Women and Labor Activism in Globalizing Thailand
Engendering discourses of displacement: Contesting mobility and marginality in rural Thailand
In Northeast Thailand gendered patterns of labor migration insert rural residents into privileged sites of national and international progress; yet, migrants and their families remain marginalized within dominant constructions of contemporary Thai modernity and development. This article explores these lived contradictions of labor mobility through the ethnographic analysis of one sending community, focusing on local discourses of, and about, the …
Gendered encounters with modernity: Labor migrants and marriage choices in contemporary Thailand
This paper explores some of the tensions that arise in the course of young Thai women's rural‐urban labor migration. The rapid expansion of urban (and especially Bangkok‐based) manufacturing in contemporary Thailand targets young rural women as its primary labor force, a process that both relies on and challenges conventional gender relations and ideals. The experience of labor mobility engages migrants not only in national and transnational rela…
Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies
Rural-Urban Obfuscations: Thinking about urban anthropology and labor migration in Thailand
The 2000 SUNTA Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology was awarded to Mary Beth Mills for Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves (1999). The book traces the movement of young women from rural Thailand into urban wage employment, primarily in the capital city of Bangkok. In her analysis Mills explores migration as one of the complex structures that link rural and urban places into a single social formation as w…
Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers
Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers. James E. Roberson. London: Routledge Press, 1998. vii 227 pp., illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index
Cookbook confidential: Global appetites, culinary fantasies, and Thai food
Thai cookbooks offer a productive lens for examining the inequalities at work in contemporary processes of cultural commodification. In the past, these ethnic cookbooks often imagined their non-Thai readers’ encounters with Thai cuisine in sharply hierarchical terms, crafting neo-colonial fantasies that normalized cosmopolitan appetites for cultural difference. Today, English-language Thai cookbooks remain similarly entangled in a global hierarch…
The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia. CHARLES F. Keyes
Ecology and Practical Technology: Peasant Farming Systems in Thailand. SHIGEHARU Tanabe
Contesting the margins of modernity: Women, migration, and consumption in Thailand
Rural women who move to Bangkok for employment confront significant social and economic constraints as low-wage, low-status migrant labor; yet experiences of exploitation in the workplace are widely mediated by aspirations for and participation in new patterns of commodity consumption. In this article, I examine these consumption practices as important sites of cultural struggle in which young women seek to construct new identities and contest th…
The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village
The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village. MICHAEL R. RHUM. Center for Southeast Asian Studies Special Reports, 29. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1994. vi + 202 pp., charts, diagrams, notes, appendix, glossary, bibliography
Gendered encounters with modernity: Labor migrants and marriage choices in contemporary Thailand
This paper explores some of the tensions that arise in the course of young Thai women's rural‐urban labor migration. The rapid expansion of urban (and especially Bangkok‐based) manufacturing in contemporary Thailand targets young rural women as its primary labor force, a process that both relies on and challenges conventional gender relations and ideals. The experience of labor mobility engages migrants not only in national and transnational rela…
Thai women in the global labor force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
Enacting Solidarity: Unions and migrant youth in Thailand
This article examines the activities of some young migrant workers, participants in Thailand's labor movement, and their strategies for solidarity in the face of economic insecurity. Activities sponsored by some independent Bangkok unions and labor solidarity groups draw upon both 'modern' urban commercial forms as well as 'traditional' ritual practices to promote class-based unity within a predominantly youthful and migrant labor force. Though l…
Migrant Labor Takes a Holiday: Reworking modernity and marginality in contemporary Thailand
This paper examines the practice of working-class group excursions in Thailand, organized by and for rural labor migrants in Bangkok. These trips involve traditional forms of Buddhist ceremonial as well as more self-consciously 'modern' sightseeing activities in distant regions of the country. More than just a welcome respite from the drudgery and discipline of factory jobs, these excursions allow labor migrants to make important claims about the…
Women and Kinship: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and South-East Asia. Leela Dube
Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers
Japanese Working Class Lives: An Ethnographic Study of Factory Workers. James E. Roberson. London: Routledge Press, 1998. vii 227 pp., illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index
Rural-Urban Obfuscations: Thinking about urban anthropology and labor migration in Thailand
The 2000 SUNTA Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology was awarded to Mary Beth Mills for Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves (1999). The book traces the movement of young women from rural Thailand into urban wage employment, primarily in the capital city of Bangkok. In her analysis Mills explores migration as one of the complex structures that link rural and urban places into a single social formation as w…
Gender and Inequality in the Global Labor Force
This review examines the convergence of recent anthropological interests in gender, labor, and globalization. Attention to gender and gender inequality offers a productive strategy for the analysis of globalizing processes and their local variations and contestations. Contemporary ethnographic research explores multiple dimensions of labor and gender inequalities in the global economy: gendered patterns of labor recruitment and discipline, the tr…
Engendering discourses of displacement: Contesting mobility and marginality in rural Thailand
In Northeast Thailand gendered patterns of labor migration insert rural residents into privileged sites of national and international progress; yet, migrants and their families remain marginalized within dominant constructions of contemporary Thai modernity and development. This article explores these lived contradictions of labor mobility through the ethnographic analysis of one sending community, focusing on local discourses of, and about, the …
From Nimble Fingers to Raised Fists: Women and Labor Activism in Globalizing Thailand
Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing by Teri L. Caraway
Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies
Gendered Morality Tales: Discourses of Gender, Labour, and Value in Globalising Asia
Across Asia, the pursuit of national and global capital accumulation has relied on flexible, feminised work forces and patriarchal models of social reproduction. These gendered patterns of production and reproduction, while central to Asia’s neoliberal ‘miracle’ economies, have also generated powerful discourses that devalue women and their work. Drawing on case studies from across the region, this paper examines the links between these globalisi…
Cookbook confidential: Global appetites, culinary fantasies, and Thai food
Thai cookbooks offer a productive lens for examining the inequalities at work in contemporary processes of cultural commodification. In the past, these ethnic cookbooks often imagined their non-Thai readers’ encounters with Thai cuisine in sharply hierarchical terms, crafting neo-colonial fantasies that normalized cosmopolitan appetites for cultural difference. Today, English-language Thai cookbooks remain similarly entangled in a global hierarch…
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Law (6 works)