Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure - Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific (Paperback, New)

Discussions of sexuality in Asia and the Pacific have long been tinged with conceptions of the exotic Orient. Examining a world of erotic encounter between European, Asian, and Pacific people, these essays explore how sexual practices and sexual meanings have been constructed across cultural borders in Thailand, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the Polynesian islands. Considering sexuality as embedded in a complex social and political world structured and saturated by gender, race, and class relations, these scholars challenge the categories with which sex and gender have been named and studied. They examine these sites of desire through specific historic and cultural circumstances, from the first explorations of Europeans, through colonial power, to the contemporary issues of sexual tourism, prostitution, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
A unique and important contribution to the study of sexuality, this book also suggests that the history of sexuality in the West was shaped by myths of the legendary Orient and the exotic "Other."

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society
Release date:	August 1997
First published:	August 1997
Editors:	Lenore Manderson • Margaret Jolly
Dimensions:	23 x 15 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	375
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-50304-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	0-226-50304-6
Barcode:	9780226503042

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