East Asian sexualities : modernity, gender and new sexual cultures / edited by Stevi Jackson, Liu Jieyu and Woo Juhyun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Stevi.

Jieyu, Liu.

Juhyun, Woo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Sexual behavior--East Asia.

Women.

Sex role--East Asia.

Sex role.

Women--Sexual behavior--East Asia--Case studies.

Sex role--East Asia--Case studies.

Women--Sexual behavior.

East Asia.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction 1

Reflections on Gender, Modernity and East Asian Sexualities / Stevi Jackson, Liu Jieyu, Woo Juhyun

Part I Sex and Work

1 Global Cinderellas: Sexuality, Power and Situational Practices across Borders / Lan Pei-Chia 33

2 The Making of Sekuhara: Sexual Harassment in Japanese Culture / Muta Kazue 52

3 The Office Party: Corporate Sexual Culture and Sexual Harassment in the South Korean Workplace / Lee Sung-Eun 69

4 Sexualized Labour? 'White-Collar Beauties'in Provincial China / Liu Jieyu 85

5 Sex and "Work in Sex Work: Negotiating Sex and Work among Taiwanese Sex Workers / Chen Mei-Hua 104

6 Beyond Sex Work: An Analysis of Xiaojies' Understandings of Work in the Pearl River Delta Area, China / Ding Yu, Ho Sik-Ying 123

Part II The Politics and Practice of Intimate Relationships

7 The Sexual Politics of Difference in Post-IMF Korea: Challenges of the Lesbian Rights and Sex Workers' Movements / Cho Joo-hyun 141

8 'How Did You Two Meet?' Lesbian Partnerships in Present-day Japan / Saori Kamano, Diana Khor 161

9 Chinese Women's Stories of Love, Marriage and Sexuality / Li Yinhe 178

10 Talking about 'Good Sex': Hong Kong Women's Sexuality in the Twenty-first Century / Annie Hau-nung Chan 195

11 Becoming 'the First Wives': Gender, Intimacy and the Regional Economy across the Taiwan Straitc / Shen Hsiu-hua 216.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781842778890

1842778897

9781842778883

1842778889

OCLC:

191925635