Sexual Cultures in East Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415308717 / Twarda / 2003 / 308 str.

Opis

Using case studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures.

Spis treści

Part One: Sexual Cultures: Caught Between Traditions and Transitions1. Social Significance of Commercial Sex Work: Implicity Shaping a Sexual Culture? Evelyne Micollier2. Three 'Red Light Districts' in China Pan Suiming3. Japanese Sex Workers: Between Choice and Coersion Wim Lunsing4. Dutiful Daughters and Temporary Wives: Economic Dependency on Commercial Sex in Vietnam an Walters5. What is Known about Gender, the Constructs of Sexuality and Dictates of Behaviour in Vietnam as a Confusian and Socialist Society and their Impact on the Risk of HIV/AIDS Epidemic Paula-Frances Kelly6. The Broken Women of Cambodia Annuska DerksPart Two; The Social Construction of Sexual Risk in the Light of STDs/AIDS Control7. Public Health Policy vs. Colonial Laissez-Faire: Stds and Prostitution in Republican Shanghai Christian Henriot8. Representations of 'Us' and 'Others' in the AIDS News Discourse: A Tawanese Experience Mei-Ling Hsu, Wen-Chi Lin and Tsui-Sung Wu9. AIDS and Civil Society in Taiwan Evelyne Micollier10. The Sex Education for Vietnamese Adolescents in the Context of HIV/AIDS Epidemic: The NGOs, the School, the Family and the Civil Society Marie-Eve Blanc10. Sex Works in Times of AIDS, Caught between the Visible and the Invisible Ivan Wolffers, Paula Kelly, and Anke van der Kwaak

O autorze

Evelyne Micollier is an Affiliated Research Fellow of the International Institute of Asian Studies, The Netherlands.