Cultural politics of gender and sexuality in contemporary Asia
By: Edited by Tiantian Zheng
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780824852962; 9780824852979
Subjects: Social life and customs; Sex role; Gender identity; Sex
Description: "Offers up-to-date, grounded, critical analysis of the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, and political economy across a diverse array of Asian societies: China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan. Based on intense ethnographic fieldwork, the chapters disentangle the ways in which gendered and sexual experiences are impinged upon by state policies, economic realities, cultural ideologies, and social hierarchies. Whether highlighting intimate relationships between elite businessmen and their mistresses in China; nightclub performances by Thai men in Bangkok; single women's views of romance, motherhood, and marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo; or male same-sex relationships in Pakistan--each chapter centers around the stories of the gendered subjects themselves and how they are shaped by outside forces. Taken together they provide a provocative entrée into the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in Asia."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sexuality, class, and neoliberal ideology : same-sex attracted men and money boys in postsocialist China / Tiantian Zheng; title: Producing purity : an ethnography of a traditionalist "ladies' academy" in urban China / Kevin Carrico; title: "Tonight, you are a man!" : negotiating embodied resistance in local Thai nightclubs / Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Tracy Royce; title: Feeling like a "man" : managing gender, sexuality, and corporate life in the Tokyo nightlife / Nana Okura Gagne; title: Mobilizing the masses to change something intimate : the process of de-sexualization in China's family planning campaign / Danning Wang; title: Pleasure, patronage, and responsibility : sexuality and status among new rich men in contemporary China / John Osburg; title: Labor, masculinity and history : bangbang men in Chongqing, China / Xia Zhang; title: Boys II men : neighborhood associations in western India as the site of masculine identity / Madhura Lohokare; title: Marriage and reproduction in East Asian cities : views from single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo / Lynne Nakano; title: Media, sex, and the self in Cambodia / Heidi Hoefinger; title: Islam, marriage, and yaari : making meaning of male same-sex sexual relationships in Pakistan / Ahmed Afzal; title: Racialization of foreign women in the transnational marriage market of Taiwan / Hsunhui Tseng.