The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan - Sociality, Space and Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

"This book explores the everyday lives of gay men in Hainan, an island province of the People's Republic of China. Taking an ethnographic and phenomenological approach, it asks how these men construct and experience ways of 'sexual being' - as gay, homosexual, tongzhi and/or in the scene - and what these mean for the ways of living they see as possible within a socio-cultural, political and material context characterised by pervasive heteronormativity. It explores what it means for gay men in Hainan to 'come into the scene', how internet and mobile technologies figure in their everyday processes of sexual categorisation and how these men negotiate orientations and disorientations towards the future in relation to dominant heterosexual life scripts of marriage and reproduction. This book offers vital insights into the production and restriction of non-heterosexual lives in diverse settings, while addressing universal questions of how certain ways of living are enabled and curtailed in living together with others through powerful conditions of uncertainty and precarity. This book will be of interest to scholars in LGBTQ studies, particularly those with a focus on same-sex intimacies and identities in China."

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	James Cummings
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-092252-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Gay studies (Gay men) Promotions
LSN:	3-03-092252-9
Barcode:	9783030922528

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