Language:
English
Pages:
153 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN (falsch) 9789882208452
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Queer Asia
DDC:
305.906
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas' everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women's active and legitimate sexual agency. Lucetta Yip Lo Kam reads discourses on homophobia in China, including the rhetoric of "Chinese tolerance" and considers the heteronormative demands imposed on tongzhi subjects. Sh...
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