ISBN:
0415376327
,
9780415376327
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 191 S.
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series 10
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary China series
DDC:
306.70951
Keywords:
Sex customs
;
Sex
;
Sexualverhalten
;
Sexualität
;
China
;
China
;
Sexualität
;
China
;
Sexualverhalten
Description / Table of Contents:
Inhalt: Introduction: Researching the book; A naturalized order for sex, gender and marriage -- 1. THE SEXED BODY AND NATURALIZED GENDER DIFFERENCE: Pt. I: blurred boundaries Intersexuals Transsexuals - Pt. II: Gender and the mandates of the body Hotline advice on biological imperatives Norms for female beauty -- 2. THE SEXUAL BODY AND ITS NORMAL FUNCTION: Marriage manuals and sexual anatomy; The male sex organs; The female sex organs; Metaphors for sexual desire; Masters and Johnson, the sexual function and sexual dysfunctions; Masturbation; Expert advice on sexual normality -- 3. SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION AND TREATMENTS IN SEX SHOPS AND SEX CLINICS: Sexual dysfunction and biomechanics: vibrators; Chen Kai's sex clinic; Viagra and its imitators; Biochemical treatments for premature ejaculation; Biochemistry for women -- 4. CONTROLLING SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE, EUGENICS AND QUALITY CHILDREN: Pt. I: Controlling sex outside marriage; The dangers of adolescence and the role of sex education; The dangers of premarital sex; The hymen and the first night; Proscriptions on extra-marital sex - Pt. II: Quality children; Eugenic restrictions on marriage; The premarital health check; Undesirable births, devalued beings -- 5. MARRIAGE MANUALS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR HARMONIOUS SEX: Appropriate frequency for sex; Preparation for sexual activity; Foreplay; Intercourse ; Orgasm -- 6. 'SEXUAL ABNORMALITY': HOMOSEXUALITY, PORNOGRAPHY AND FETISHISM: Pt. I: homosexuality; Legal, medical and academic approaches to same-sex eroticism; Pressures to marry - Pt. II: The use of pornography: Pornography: definitions and dangers; Anti-pornography campaigns - Pt. III: Fetishism: The sale and purchase of sex; Prostitution and its meanings; The legal position; Tiers and types of prostitution; Condoms, STIs and AIDS; The policing of prostitution -- Conclusion -- Character list -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Angaben zum Inhalt: Drawing on interviews with Chinas foremost sex experts, this book provides a detailed examination of the political, social and moral ramifications of gender, sex and sexuality in China today. The author focuses on sexual normality, technical and medical interventions to alleviate dysfunction and on norms for sexual behavior and activity, and questions the claim that China is becoming more liberalized in relation to sexual matters. Including groundbreaking material on transsexuals, fetishism, sex aids and pornography, this book shows that the sexual knowledge being produced is neither innocent nor inconsequential and that amid catalogues of prescriptions linking self-management to the collective good, people are making decisions about how to live their sexual lives. The book presents the most up-to-date empirical research in the field and as such will be of great interest to scholars of Chinese studies, cultural studies and gender studies
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