Woodhead, Martin

Heather Montgomery is a lecturer in Childhood Studies at The Open University. She is an anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in Thailand among young prostitutes and is the author of "Modern Babylon? Prostituting Children in Thailand" (Berghahn, 2001). She has held post-doctoral positions in the USA, Norway and Oxford and is the author of several articles on children's rights, child abuse and the anthropology of childhood. Other publications include 'Imposing rights? A Case study of child prostitution in Thailand' in "Culture and Rights" (edited by Cowan, Dembour and Wilson, Cambridge Uni...