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Jackson, Stevi, Liu, Jieyu and Woo, Juhyun, eds. (2008) East Asian sexualities : modernity, gender and new sexual cultures. London: Zed Books.

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Abstract

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 and movements. The contributors highlight the gendered and sexual consequences of globalization and rapid social change. In doing so, they engage with western debates on late modernity while also exploring the contested understandings of modernization and westernization in the East. This is a collection which illuminates the local situations in which women’s sexual lives are lived and offers fresh perspectives on global issues.

Item Type: Edited Book or Journal Volume
Keywords: modernity, gender, sexualities, East Asia
SOAS Departments & Centres: ?? 5050 ??
ISBN: 9781842778890
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350219762
Date Deposited: 12 Jan 2016 21:35
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/21787

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