Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia

Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia

With contributions by: Tiantian Zheng, Kevin Carrico, Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Tracy Royce, Nana Okura Gagné, Danning Wang, John Osburg, Xia Zhang, Madhura Lohokare, Lynne Y. Nakano, Heidi Hoefinger, Ahmed Afzal and Hsunhui Tseng
Edited by: Tiantian Zheng

University of Hawaii Press | 2016

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824852986

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In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings and micro-politics of family structure, gender relationships, intimate romance, transactional sex, and sexual behaviors?

This volume 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.

By foregrounding cross-cultural ethnographic research, this volume sheds light on how configurations of gender and sexuality are constituted, negotiated, contested, transformed, and at times, perpetuated and reproduced in private, intimate experiences. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and women’s and LGBTQ studies.

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Tiantian Zheng is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland.Tiantian Zheng is professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Cortland.

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Twelve well-done essays, with a strong focus on China, explore the diversity of modern sexuality and gender in Asia today . . . it is a fine and fascinating set of ethnographies of gender and sexual diversity. . . . the book is an intriguing examination of an ever-shifting field of concepts and relationships.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Free access PDF PDF	ix
Introduction. Gender And Sexuality In Contemporary Asia Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Chapter One. Sexuality, Class, And Neoliberal Ideology Same-Sex Attracted Men And Money Boys In Postsocialist China Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	23
Chapter Two. Producing Purity An Ethnographic Study Of A Neotraditionalist Ladies’ Academy In Contemporary Urban China Kevin Carrico Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	41
Chapter Three. “Tonight, You Are A Man!” Negotiating Embodied Resistance In Local Thai Nightclubs Danielle Antoinette and Tracy Royce Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	57
Chapter Four. Feeling Like A “Man” Managing Gender, Sexuality, And Corporate Life In After-Hours Tokyo Nana Okura Gagné Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	74
Chapter Five. Mobilizing The Masses To Change Something Intimate The Process Of Desexualization In China’S Family Planning Campaign Danning Wang Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	92
Chapter Six. Pleasure, Patronage, And Responsibility Sexuality And Status Among New Rich Men In Contemporary China John Osburg Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	108
Chapter Seven. Labor, Masculinity, And History Bangbang Men In Chongqing, China Xia Zhang Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	124
Chapter Eight. Boyz Ii Men Neighborhood Associations In Western India As The Site Of Masculine Identity Madhura Lohokare Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	140
Chapter Nine. Marriage And Reproduction In East Asian Cities Views From Single Women In Shanghai, Hong Kong, And Tokyo Lynne Nakano Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	156
Chapter Ten. Media, Sex, And The Self In Cambodia Heidi Hoefinger Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	171
Chapter Eleven. Islam, Marriage, And Yaari Making Meaning Of Male Same-Sex Sexual Relationships In Pakistan Ahmed Afzal Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	187
Chapter Twelve. Racialization Of Foreign Women In The Transnational Marriage Market Of Taiwan Hsunhui Tseng Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	205
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	223
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	227

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