Political feminism and the women's movement in Thailand: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Asia

Duanghathai Buranajaroenkij

In recent years, challenges caused by social and political unrest and conflicts over natural resources and the environment have had an impact on the lives and livelihoods of Thai women. These challenges have disproportionately affected women and created new forms of pressure and difficulties in achieving gender equality, especially for those women who do not have decision-making power or access to resources and political policy-making. To rise and meet these challenges, women and women’s organizations need to take concerted actions to protect their rights.

Cover of FES publication: Political feminism and the women's movement in Thailand

Commissioned with these issues in mind, this paper proposes four areas through which gender issues can be strategically politicized and based on feminist principles and approaches: 1) Public communication through social media to deconstruct gender mystification; 2) Educational programms to uncover intersectional strife (e.g., involving gender, national origin and class) in care work from a feminist perspective; 3) Application of gender diversity as an analytical framework for sustainable national economic and social development policy-making; 4) Creation of spaces for women’s political participation and for legitimizing women’s political participation outside the formal political system to ensure women’s right to self-determination as dignified members of society.

This study, available in English and Thai, is part of a series published under Political Feminism in Asia, a regional project coordinated by the FES Office for Regional Cooperation in Asia.

Buranajaroenkij, Duanghathai

Political feminism and the women's movement in Thailand

actors, debates and strategies
Bangkok, 2017

More information

Download publication (400 KB, PDF-File)

Political feminism and the women's movement in Thailand

Political feminism and the women's movement in Thailand

FES in Asia

News

The conflict in Ukraine and Thailand’s cost of living crisis

“Women are leading effectively and efficiently any time they are given the opportunity”

Mongolia in the New Geopolitics of Asia

Social media platforms

Political feminism and the women's movement in Thailand

Political feminism and the women's movement in Thailand

Related Links

You might also be interested in

Feminism and the womens' movement in the Philippines

A Hundred Years of Feminism in Indonesia

The Women’s Movement in Bangladesh

Gender justice in Thailand: working towards the inclusion of all

The conflict in Ukraine and Thailand’s cost of living crisis

“Women are leading effectively and efficiently any time they are given the opportunity”

Mongolia in the New Geopolitics of Asia

Social media platforms