East Asian Sexualities: Modernity, Gender and New Sexual Cultures
This book paints a vivid picture of women's active involvement in reshaping intimate and public sexual life in East Asia. In bringing together exciting new feminist research on sexuality from East Asia and making it available to a wider audience, East Asian Sexualities unsettles stereotypes, rectifies lack of awareness and demonstrates that East Asia matters. The chapters address the diversity and variety of everyday sexual lives and sexual politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. They range from workplace sexual cultures, trans-national sexual relations, the conditions of sex-work and the emergence of new sexual desires, cultur…
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Weitere Autoren: Liu, Jieyu (Hrsg.) / Woo, Juhyun (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84277-888-3
- EAN: 9781842778883
- Produktnummer: 3586861
- Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.0 cm 417 g
- Gewicht: 417
Über den Autor
Stevi Jackson is Professor of Women's Studies and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. She works on theories of gender and sexuality and is author of a number of books including Childhood and Sexuality (1982; 1996), Heterosexuality in Question (1999) and Theorizing Sexuality, with Sue Scott (2008). She has co-edited, with Sue Scott, Feminism and Sexuality (1997) and Gender: A Sociological Reader (2001). She has a long-standing personal interest in east Asia, having spent formative years in Hong-Kong as a teenager and has recently developed an academic interest in the area through her research students and through contacts with East Asian feminist scholars.Liu Jieyu is Academic Fellow of the White Rose East Asian Centre based at the University of Leeds, having previously been Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (2007) and of journal articles on women workers in China. She is currently researching the aestheticisation of white collar work in China and the aspirations of young women employed in such work.Woo Juhyun has completed a PhD at the University of York on narratives of sexual citizenship and is pursuing further research on narratives of sexuality at the University of York. She undertook her undergraduate and graduate education in the UK, but was born and raised in Korea and worked as a sociological researcher in her native country before returning to the UK to work on her PhD.
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