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...
This book paints a vivid picture of women's active involvement in reshaping intimate and public sexual life in East Asia. In bringing together exci...
This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society. It provides an insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities, relating the study of gender and sexuality to wider social concerns throughout the world and presenting a comprehensive yet readable summary of recent research and theory.
In an accessible and engaging style, the book demonstrates how thinking about gender and sexuality can illuminate and enliven other contemporary...
This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society. It provides ...
This reader brings together a range of feminist writing on sexuality. Emphasizing the diversity of feminist perspectives, the readings are grouped together under four main areas within the debates about sexuality: essentialism versus social construction; affirming and questioning sexual categories; power and pleasure; and commercial sex.
This reader brings together a range of feminist writing on sexuality. Emphasizing the diversity of feminist perspectives, the readings are grouped tog...
This reader brings together a range of feminist writing on sexuality. Emphasizing the diversity of feminist perspectives, the readings are grouped together under four main areas within the debates about sexuality: essentialism versus social construction; affirming and questioning sexual categories; power and pleasure; and commercial sex.
This reader brings together a range of feminist writing on sexuality. Emphasizing the diversity of feminist perspectives, the readings are grouped tog...
This book surveys and evaluates the sociological contribution to the study of sexuality. It not only maps major theoretical shifts and debates, but also offers a unique examination of the topic that emphasises the sociality of sexuality. In particular, it considers the institutional, biographical and interactional contexts of our sexual lives as well as the cultural significance and everyday practice of sexuality.
The authors contest not only popular understandings of sexuality as natural, but also psychoanalytic explanations and forms of analysis that privilege the cultural construction...
This book surveys and evaluates the sociological contribution to the study of sexuality. It not only maps major theoretical shifts and debates, but al...
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...
This book paints a vivid picture of women's active involvement in reshaping intimate and public sexual life in East Asia. In bringing together exci...
This Reader brings together a broad range of critical work on on the everday practices and power relations of domestic consumption -drawing on material from sociology, women's studies and media and cultural studies. The book is divided into five main sections - on economics, food and clothing, leisure and media reception, household technologies, and the construction of home - and its selected contributions examine the social dynamics of gender: generation, class and ethnicity.
This Reader brings together a broad range of critical work on on the everday practices and power relations of domestic consumption -drawing on materia...
