Sex, Science and Morality in China
eBook - ePub

Sex, Science and Morality in China

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sex, Science and Morality in China

About this book

After decades of near silence on the matter, sex is being talked about in China. But what is being said? Who is allowed to speak? And whose purposes are being served?

This ground-breaking book takes a critical look at how sex in China is thought and talked about. Drawing on the work of the country's foremost sex experts, and years of research in the field, it gives an overview of the sexual landscape in China today.

Including new material on transsexuals, fetishism, sex aids and pornography, the book shows that the dominant ways of thinking about sex are 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 most lively and accessible critique of sexual discourse, this book will be essential reading for scholars in Chinese studies, cultural studies and sexuality and gender studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Routledge Contemporary China Series
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 The sexed body and naturalized gender difference
  12. 2 The sexual body and its normal function
  13. 3 Sexual dysfunction and treatments in sex shops and sex clinics
  14. 4 Controlling sex outside marriage, eugenics and quality children
  15. 5 Marriage manuals and instructions for harmonious sex
  16. 6 ‘Sexual abnormality’: homosexuality, pornography and fetishism
  17. 7 The sale and purchase of sex
  18. Conclusion
  19. Character list
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index