Feminism in Thailand

===1960s===

===1960s===

* While under the military dictatorship in the 1960s, a group of upper class, educated Thai women began to address Thai public policy facets which were inequitable, beginning with family law. This initial upper-class women's movement was contributed as a continuation of a less publicized law reform movement in the 1950s where women activist focused on issues which entailed the rights of a wife to [[matrimonial]] property management and the impeding of males who double registered their marriages.<ref name=Virada>{{cite journal|last=Somswasdi|first=Virada|title=The Women's Movement and Legal Reform in Thailand|journal=Cornell Law Library|date=1 April 2003|url=http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=biss_papers|access-date=25 May 2012}}</ref> In tandem with the upper-class women's policy concerns, the 1960s Thai Student's Movement emerged along with women's groups at [[Thammasat University]]. These students focused on 'building women's consciousness' while gaining public attention through book publishing and protesting.

* While under the military dictatorship in the 1960s, a group of upper class, educated Thai women began to address Thai public policy facets which were inequitable, beginning with family law. This initial upper-class women's movement was contributed as a continuation of a less publicized law reform movement in the 1950s where women activist focused on issues which entailed the rights of a wife to [[matrimonial]] property management and the impeding of males who double registered their marriages.<ref name=Virada>{{cite journal|last=Somswasdi|first=Virada|title=The Women's Movement and Legal Reform in Thailand|journal=Cornell Law Library|date=1 April 2003|url=http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=biss_papers|access-date=25 May 2012}}</ref> In tandem with the upper-class women's policy concerns, the 1960s Thai Student's Movement emerged along with women's groups at [[Thammasat University]]. These students focused on 'building women's consciousness' while gaining public attention through book publishing and protesting.

* The women's groups during this time period also participated in the People's Movement (in lieu of the fact that many men were involved in activism and protests). [[The People's Movement]] played a quintessential role in the 1973 student uprising anti-military demonstrations in [[Bangkok]] (now enshrined in the memories of Thai people as hok tulaa) <ref name=costa/> which aided in the Thai State becoming an 'unstable democracy' beginning in 1973.<ref name=Unchana>{{cite journal|last1=Suwannanond|first1=Unchana |last2=Berhane-Selassie |first2=Tsehai |last3=Henry |first3=Alice |last4=Osman |first4=Sona |last5=Wallsgrove|first5=Ruth|title=International interview: FEMINISM IN THAILAND: "IT WILL TAKE MY WHOLE LIFE, I THINK" |journal=Off Our Backs|date=March 1985|volume=15|issue=3|pages=2–4|jstor=25794571}}</ref> This 1973 movement was highly publicized though the platform of feminist journalists, alongside the academic, professional, and public institutions of its time.<ref name=Virada/> See-[[History of Thailand (1973–2001)]]

* The women's groups during this time period also participated in the People's Movement (in lieu of the fact that many men were involved in activism and protests). [[The People's Movement (Thailand)|The People's Movement]] played a quintessential role in the 1973 student uprising anti-military demonstrations in [[Bangkok]] (now enshrined in the memories of Thai people as hok tulaa) <ref name=costa/> which aided in the Thai State becoming an 'unstable democracy' beginning in 1973.<ref name=Unchana>{{cite journal|last1=Suwannanond|first1=Unchana |last2=Berhane-Selassie |first2=Tsehai |last3=Henry |first3=Alice |last4=Osman |first4=Sona |last5=Wallsgrove|first5=Ruth|title=International interview: FEMINISM IN THAILAND: "IT WILL TAKE MY WHOLE LIFE, I THINK" |journal=Off Our Backs|date=March 1985|volume=15|issue=3|pages=2–4|jstor=25794571}}</ref> This 1973 movement was highly publicized though the platform of feminist journalists, alongside the academic, professional, and public institutions of its time.<ref name=Virada/> See-[[History of Thailand (1973–2001)]]

===1970s===

===1970s===