The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780226734781
Subjects: Lesbian Studies; Lesbians; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; Gay Studies; Social Science / Lesbian Studies; Asia - China; China
First sentence: Sitting in a dimly lit library room one afternoon, and leafing though the inaugural issue of the early Chinese women's literary magazine Meiyu (The words of eyebrows), I stumbled on a set of photographs with the caption "Chinese beauties' activities of leisure [Zhongguo meiren zhi xianqing]."