ISBN:
9780415636209
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (215 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Queer Women in Urban China : An Ethnography
DDC:
306.76/630951
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and with mainstream media and society increasingly tolerant, lalas still experience immense family and social pressures to a degree that this book argues is deeply gendered. The first anthropological study to examine everyday lala lives, intimacies, and communities in China, the chapters explore changing articulations of sexual subjectivity, gendered T-P (tomboy-wife) roles, family and kinship, same-sex weddings, lala-gay contract marriages, and communi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Note on Terminology and Language; Acknowledgments; 1 Queer Women in Urban China: An Introduction; 2 'A Special Self': New Sexual Subjectivities; 3 Is Face More Important than Happiness? Negotiating Family and Kinship; 4 'Come and Join Our Wedding!': The Symbolic Politics of Lala Marriages; 5 Convenient Resistance?: Lala-Gay Contract Marriages; 6 'Our Lala Space': Community Development and Social Activism; 7 Conclusion: 'Queers, Keep up the Good Work!'; Selected Chinese Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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