Heather Montgomery is a member of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and a British Academy Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. She has recently been appointed Lecturer in Child Studies at the Open University.

“... an admirable pioneering study ... [which] paints a dynamic and often horrific picture of the workings of child prostitution.”   ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"This study is very instructive and deserves to be consulted by specialists of Thailand but also by a wider readership that is interested in the different notions of sexuality and various forms of prostitutions."  · Comptes Rendus

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Personal ViewChild Prostitution and AnthropologyChapter 1. History and ContextMyths and StereotypesNGOs and the Discovery of Child ProstitutionThe Extent of the ProblemHistory and MythChapter 2. Cultural Constructions of ChildhoodA History of Childhood in the WestChildhood in ThailandWhat Constitutes a Good Childhood?Childhood and State InterventionChapter 3. The Child Prostitutes of Baan NuaData CollectionChild Prostitution in Baan NuaKinship and ReciprocityReciprocity, Friends and ClientsChapter 4. Struggles and ContradictionsChildren as Social AgentsProstitution and its AlternativesThe Life-Cycle of ProstitutionChapter 5. Identity and its DifficultiesStatusSexuality and IdentityGender, Prostitution and IdentitySocial IdentityChapter 6. Protecting InnocenceInnocence and FreedomBuying InnocenceMaintaining InnocenceChapter 7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Heather Montgomery is a member of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and a British Academy Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. She has recently been appointed Lecturer in Child Studies at the Open University.

“... an admirable pioneering study ... [which] paints a dynamic and often horrific picture of the workings of child prostitution.”   ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"This study is very instructive and deserves to be consulted by specialists of Thailand but also by a wider readership that is interested in the different notions of sexuality and various forms of prostitutions."  · Comptes Rendus

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Personal ViewChild Prostitution and AnthropologyChapter 1. History and ContextMyths and StereotypesNGOs and the Discovery of Child ProstitutionThe Extent of the ProblemHistory and MythChapter 2. Cultural Constructions of ChildhoodA History of Childhood in the WestChildhood in ThailandWhat Constitutes a Good Childhood?Childhood and State InterventionChapter 3. The Child Prostitutes of Baan NuaData CollectionChild Prostitution in Baan NuaKinship and ReciprocityReciprocity, Friends and ClientsChapter 4. Struggles and ContradictionsChildren as Social AgentsProstitution and its AlternativesThe Life-Cycle of ProstitutionChapter 5. Identity and its DifficultiesStatusSexuality and IdentityGender, Prostitution and IdentitySocial IdentityChapter 6. Protecting InnocenceInnocence and FreedomBuying InnocenceMaintaining InnocenceChapter 7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Heather Montgomery is a member of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and a British Academy Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. She has recently been appointed Lecturer in Child Studies at the Open University.

“... an admirable pioneering study ... [which] paints a dynamic and often horrific picture of the workings of child prostitution.”   ·  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"This study is very instructive and deserves to be consulted by specialists of Thailand but also by a wider readership that is interested in the different notions of sexuality and various forms of prostitutions."  · Comptes Rendus

• List of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Personal ViewChild Prostitution and AnthropologyChapter 1. History and ContextMyths and StereotypesNGOs and the Discovery of Child ProstitutionThe Extent of the ProblemHistory and MythChapter 2. Cultural Constructions of ChildhoodA History of Childhood in the WestChildhood in ThailandWhat Constitutes a Good Childhood?Childhood and State InterventionChapter 3. The Child Prostitutes of Baan NuaData CollectionChild Prostitution in Baan NuaKinship and ReciprocityReciprocity, Friends and ClientsChapter 4. Struggles and ContradictionsChildren as Social AgentsProstitution and its AlternativesThe Life-Cycle of ProstitutionChapter 5. Identity and its DifficultiesStatusSexuality and IdentityGender, Prostitution and IdentitySocial IdentityChapter 6. Protecting InnocenceInnocence and FreedomBuying InnocenceMaintaining InnocenceChapter 7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex