ISBN:
9789622093829
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (ix, 233 p)
,
ill
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Druck-Ausgabe Dikötter, Frank, 1961 - Sex, culture and modernity in modern China
DDC:
306/.0951
Schlagwort(e):
Sex role History
;
Sexual ethics History
;
Sex customs History
;
Social Sciences
;
China
;
Sexualverhalten
;
Medizin
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1911-1949
Kurzfassung:
With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as the epistemological foundation for social order. The construction of sexuality as a dangerous drive which was thought to form the very core of an individual led to the emergence of a wide range of identities. The roots of such modernizing representations, however, appear to have been drawn from China's past as much as from discourse with the West. This study is based on medical and lay texts such as handbooks, marriage guides and texts on physiology and sexual hygien
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Passive Sex: The Naturalization of Gender Distinctions; Chapter 3. Sexual Desire and Human Procreation; Chapter 4. 'Four Hundred Million Siblings': The Regulation of 'Population'; Chapter 5. 'Civilization is Syphilization': The Cultural Meanings of 'Disease'; Chapter 6. The Cultural Construction of 'Youth'; Chapter 7. Epilogue: The Regulation of Sexuality in the People's Republic; Bibliography; Character List; Index;
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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