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Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China
Tiantian Zheng
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Description for Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China
Paperback. This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; JHM; JHMC; PNN; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies.
This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349380466
SKU
V9781349380466
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99-15
About Tiantian Zheng
TIANTIAN ZHENG is Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at State University of New York, USA, and author of Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China.
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