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East Asian Sexualities
S Et Al Jackson
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Description for East Asian Sexualities
Paperback. Includes chapters that address the diversity and variety of everyday sexual lives and sexual politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. This book highlights the gendered and sexual consequences of globalization and rapid social change. It describes the local situations in which women's sexual lives are lived. Editor(s): Jackson, Stevi; Liu, Jieyu; Woo, Ms Juhyun. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FP; JFSJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 102 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290.
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, cultures ... Read more
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, cultures ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842778890
SKU
V9781842778890
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About S Et Al Jackson
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 Heterosexuality in Question (1999) and Theorizing Sexuality (2008). She has co-edited, with Sue Scott, Feminism and Sexuality (1997) and Gender: A Sociological ... Read more
Reviews for East Asian Sexualities
'East Asian Sexualities offers eleven fascinating studies of the interplay of sexuality and modernity in contemporary East Asian societies. This is a book which will spark new debate over the impact of modernity and globalisation on the traditional gender systems in Asian. The editors are to be congratulated for making this pioneering work available to a western audience.' ... Read more