Thai Feminism Case Study

Afterwards, Thai feminists was influenced by the idea of postmodernism that Feminism should not view just only one side because Thai women have different backgrounds, races, cultures, tradition, social status, and education. So, postmodern feminists deeply focused on the diversity and experiences of women. From Trouble Gender by Butler also said that an effect of culturally influenced acts is from the appearance of “being” a gender, then there exists no solid, universal gender: constituted through the practice of performance, the gender "woman" (like the gender "man") remains contingent and open to interpretation and “resignification.” (Butler, 1999). Therefore, it can be seen that feminism contains large and broad meanings; it does not mean only women can do the same thing as men do regardless of …show more content…
Calling themselves as a person, who is interested in women studies, sounds more appropriate to Thai people because calling themselves as a feminist may cause social conflicts between genders and also sound negative to Thai people. Although many feminist principles have been adapted successfully to Thai society, aiming for more gender equality in the society, Thai feminists still do not admit themselves as they are feminists. First reason, Thai people are not familiar with the word and its definition. All most of them think that feminism is women equally receive their own rights similar to what men do receive in the patriarchy, for example, women fight for their work position and later can get into the executive position like men (They forget to think about the power system that they got in. Does it molest to other groups of people or not). Another example, some Thai people along with Thai culture may consider that having only one wife or one