Sexual Cultures in East Asia

The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS
Herausgeber: Micollier, Evelyne

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Produktbeschreibung

Specific issues discussed in relation to the AIDS epidemic and the social construction of sexual risk and sexual identity include: *how sexual identity is formed and/or transformed *networks which can channel or condition selection of sexual partners *the complex relationship between traditional filial duty and prostitution *gendered relations of power *the relationship between kinship, sex education, marriage, NGOs and sex By using a multidisciplinary approach, which includes sociological, medical and historical perspectives, Micollier highlights how East Asian sexual identity is most definitely a social construction. Designed specifically for social scientists and those involved in AIDS development programs, this book will appeal to anyone interested in sexuality and Asian cultures.

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Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship systems, matrimonial strategies, gender, power relations, and the relevance of cultural constructs such as Confucianism and Taoism for the analysis of sexual cultures in Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780415308717
• ISBN-10: 0415308712
• Artikelnr.: 22292335

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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