ISBN:
9781848133693
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Jackson, Stevi East Asian Sexualities : Modernity, Gender and New Sexual Cultures
DDC:
306.7095
Keywords:
Sex role -- East Asia -- Case studies
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Sex role -- East Asia
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- East Asia -- Case studies
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- East Asia
Abstract:
Includes chapters that address the diversity and variety of everyday sexual lives and sexual politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. This book highlights the gendered and sexual consequences of globalization and rapid social change. It describes the local situations in which women's sexual lives are lived
Abstract:
Intro -- Note on Asian Names -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Reflections on Gender, Modernity and East Asian Sexualities -- 'East' and 'West': imaginative geographies -- East Asia matters: some historical background -- Conceptualizing intimacy and modernity: making sense of local and global change -- Intimacy, sexuality and everyday life -- Work, economics and sexuality -- Global flows and local change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part I Sex and Work -- 1 Global Cinderellas: Sexuality, Power and Situational Practices across Borders -- Negotiating sexuality transnationally -- Female migrant workers in East Asia -- Luisa's story -- Santi's story -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 The Making of Sekuhara: Sexual Harassment in Japanese Culture -- Sexual harassment: before and after -- Sexual harassment and corporate culture -- Worse than quid pro quo -- Sekuhara as a wild card: its impact and ambiguity -- Crucial advancement or a façade? -- The politics of sekuhara -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Office Party: Corporate Sexual Culture and Sexual Harassment in the South Korean Workplace -- Organizational culture -- Gender, sexuality and organizational culture in Korea -- Leisure culture and the office party -- The cultural importance of drinking -- A sexualized environment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Sexualized Labour? 'White-collar Beauties' in Provincial China -- Sexuality at work: the feminist literature -- The study -- 'Being pretty but not sexy' -- Sexualized encounters in the company offices -- Three-step socializing outside the organizational setting -- Negotiating the sexualized business culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Sex and Work in Sex Work: Negotiating Sex and Work among Taiwanese Sex Workers -- Forms of labour in the Taiwanese sex industry
Abstract:
The labour dimensions of sex work -- Negotiating the boundary between sex as sex and sex as work: the 'boyfriend narrative' -- Techniques of boundary management -- Falling in love with 'real human beings' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Beyond Sex Work: An Analysis of Xiaojies' Understandings of Work in the Pearl River Delta Area, China -- 'Second virginity': from rural wives to urban xiaojies -- New image: from 'country bumpkin' to stylish xiaojie -- Beyond 'sex' and 'work' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II The Politics and Practice of Intimate Relationships -- 7 The Sexual Politics of Difference in Post-IMF Korea: Challenges of the Lesbian Rights and Sex Workers' Movements -- Globalization and the identity 'crisis' of the post-IMF women's movement -- The lesbian rights movement: challenges to feminist gender politics -- Sex workers' movement: the challenge of agency for gender politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 'How Did You Two Meet?' Lesbian Partnerships in Present-day Japan -- The wider context: heterosexual norms and lesbian lives -- How did they meet and how did the relationship begin? -- Living the life: resistance, decisions, obstacles and support -- Settling down -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 Chinese Women's Stories of Love, Marriage and Sexuality -- Love and sex -- Emotional feelings and marriage -- Sex and marriage -- Conclusion: love, marriage, sex and morality -- Notes -- References -- 10 Talking about 'Good Sex': Hong Kong Women's Sexuality in the Twenty-fi rst Century -- Surveying sex in Hong Kong -- Table 10.1 Socio-demographic profile -- Good sex and intimacy -- Knowledge and experiences of various sexual activities -- Table 10.2 How do you like the following activities? -- Deviating from the norm
Abstract:
Table 10.3 Will you consider/do you like having sex with someone of the opposite sex, the same sex, with yourself (masturbation)? -- Table 10.4 What are your views on women masturbating? -- Orgasms and sex -- Table 10.5a Which of the following methods allow you to easily reach orgasm? -- Table 10.5b Usually under what circumstances can you reach orgasm? -- Table 10.5c Under what circumstances can you reach orgasm through vaginal intercourse? -- Talking about sex -- Table 10.6a You have told your partner you could not reach orgasm during sex. What was his/her response? -- Table 10.6b You have never told your partner you could notr each orgasm during sex. Why? -- Women and sex in twenty-first-century Hong Kong - some concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 11 Becoming 'the First Wives': Gender, Intimacy and the Regional Economy across the Taiwan Strait -- The Asian regional economy and 'the first wives' -- Domestication of Taiwanese women -- The immoral other Chinese women -- Flexible intimacy and gendered self-realization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
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