Cultural politics of gender and sexuality in contemporary Asia / edited by Tiantian Zheng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zheng, Tiantian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--Social life and customs--21st century.

Asia.

Sex role--Asia.

Sex role.

Gender identity--Asia.

Gender identity.

Sex--Social aspects--Asia.

Sex.

Manners and customs.

Sex--Social aspects.

Gender roles.

Physical Description:

ix, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Sexuality, class, and neoliberal ideology: same-sex attracted men and money boys in postsocialist China / Tiantian Zheng

Producing purity: an ethnography of a neotraditionalist ladies' academy" in contemporary urban China / Kevin Carrico

"Tonight, you are a man!": negotiating embodied resistance in local Thai nightclubs / Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Tracy Royce

Feeling like a "man": managing gender, sexuality, and corporate life in after-hours Tokyo / Nana Okura Gagn©♭

Mobilizing the masses to change something intimate: the process of desexualization in China's family planning campaign / Danning Wang

Pleasure, patronage, and responsibility: sexuality and status among new rich men in contemporary China / John Osburg

Labor, masculinity and history: bangbang men in Chongqing, China / Xia Zhang

Boys II men: neighborhood associations in western India as the site of masculine identity / Madhura Lohokare

Marriage and reproduction in East Asian cities: views from single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo / Lynne Nakano

Media, sex, and the self in Cambodia / Heidi Hoefinger

Islam, marriage, and yaari: making meaning of male same-sex sexual relationships in Pakistan / Ahmed Afzal

Racialization of foreign women in the transnational marriage market of Taiwan / Hsunhui Tseng.

Sexuality, class, and neoliberal ideology : same-sex attracted men and money boys in postsocialist China / Tiantian Zheng

Producing purity : an ethnography of a traditionalist "ladies' academy" in urban China / Kevin Carrico

"Tonight, you are a man!" : negotiating embodied resistance in local Thai nightclubs / Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Tracy Royce

Feeling like a "man" : managing gender, sexuality, and corporate life in the Tokyo nightlife / Nana Okura Gagné

Mobilizing the masses to change something intimate : the process of desexualization in China's family planning campaign / Danning Wang

Pleasure, patronage, and responsibility : sexuality and status among new rich men in contemporary China / John Osburg

Labor, masculinity and history : bangbang men in Chongqing, China / Xia Zhang

Boys II men : neighborhood associations in western India as the site of masculine identity / Madhura Lohokare

Marriage and reproduction in East Asian cities : views from single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo / Lynne Nakano

Islam, marriage, and yaari : making meaning of male same-sex sexual relationships in Pakistan / Ahmed Afzal

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824852962

0824852966

9780824852979

0824852974

OCLC:

914417710

Publisher Number:

40025902254

40025905932