East Asian Sexualities: Modernity, Gender and New Sexual Cultures - Softcover

Stevi Jackson; Jieyu Liu; Juhyun Woo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842778897 ISBN 13: 9781842778890

Publisher: Zed Books, 2008

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Review:

'East Asian Sexualities offers eleven fascinating studies of the interplay of sexuality and modernity in contemporary East Asian societies. This is a book which will spark new debate over the impact of modernity and globalisation on the traditional gender systems in Asian. The editors are to be congratulated for making this pioneering work available to a western audience.' Delia Davin, University of Leeds 'This highly accessible text will be much appreciated by readers committed to widening the global conversation about the meanings and tasks of a feminist sexual politics.' Harriet Evans, University of Westminster 'This collection is an enlightening read from cover to cover, recommended for anyone with an interest in gender, personal life, globalisation, 'modernisation' or the impact of Western cultural hegemony. The leading edge research of new and established scholars provides unique insight into social change in East Asia. The focus on sexualities is timely and an antidote to sexualising discourse of 'orientalism' and Western decadence.' Lynn Jamieson, University of Edinburgh

About the Author:

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 Heterosexuality in Question (1999) and Theorizing Sexuality (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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1842778897
• ISBN 13: 9781842778890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Stevi Jackson, Jieyu Liu, Juhyun Woo