East Asian Sexualities Modernity, Gender &

This book paints a vivid picture of women's active involvement in reshaping intimate and public sexual life in East Asia. In bringing together exciting new feminist research on sexuality from East Asia and making it available to a wider audience, East Asian Sexualities unsettles stereotypes, rectifies lack of awareness and demonstrates that East Asia matters. The chapters address the diversity and variety of everyday sexual lives and sexual politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. They range from workplace sexual cultures, trans-national sexual relations, the conditions of sex-work and the emergence of new sexual desires, cultures and movements. The contributors highlight the gendered and sexual consequences of globalization and rapid social change. In doing so, they engage with western debates on late modernity while also exploring the contested understandings of modernization and westernization in the East. This is a collection which illuminates the local situations in which women's sexual lives are lived and offers fresh perspectives on global issues.

Stevi Jackson is Professor of Women's Studies and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. She works on theories of gender and sexuality and is author of a number of books including Childhood and Sexuality (1982; 1996), Heterosexuality in Question (1999) and Theorizing Sexuality, with Sue Scott (2008). She has co-edited, with Sue Scott, Feminism and Sexuality (1997) and Gender: A Sociological Reader (2001).

Liu Jieyu is Academic Fellow of the White Rose East Asian Centre based at the University of Leeds, having previously been Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (2007) and of journal articles on women workers in China.

Woo Juhyun has completed a PhD at the University of York on narratives of sexual citizenship and is pursuing further research on narratives of sexuality at the University of York. She undertook her undergraduate and graduate education in the UK, but was born and raised in Korea and worked as a sociological researcher in her native country before returning to the UK to work on her PhD.

Introduction: Framing the Issues
Sex and work
Global Cinderellas: Negotiating Sexuality in Cross-Border Migration
Sexualized Labour? The 'white collar beauty' in provincial China
The Office Party: Corporate sexual culture and sexual harassment in the South Korean workplace
Sexual Harassment and Corporate Culture in Japan
Oh, my boyfriend once was my client '- negotiating sex and work among Taiwanese sex workers
Am I a sex worker? - Prostitute women's understandings of work and the organization of sex work in the Pearl River Delta Area
The politics and practice of intimate relationships
Chinese Women's Perceptions of Sex, Love and Marriage
The Sexual Politics of Difference in Contemporary Korea: The Lesbian Rights Movement and the Sex Workers' Movement
'How did you two meet?' The formation of lesbian partnerships in Japan
Talking about "good sex" - Hong Kong women in the 21st century
Social Change and Declining Birth Rate in Japanese Families
Becoming "the First Wives:" Gender, Intimacy, and Global Economy across the Taiwan Strait
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