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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.

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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.

Note on Asian Names	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Reflections on Gender, Modernity and East Asian Sexualities
Sex and Work
Global Cinderellas: Sexuality, Power and Situational Practices across Borders	p. 33
The Making of Sekuhara: Sexual Harassment in Japanese Culture	p. 52
The Office Party: Corporate Sexual Culture and Sexual Harassment in the South Korean Workplace	p. 69
Sexualized Labour? 'White-Collar Beauties'in Provincial China	p. 85
Sex and "Work in Sex Work: Negotiating Sex and Work among Taiwanese Sex Workers	p. 104
Beyond Sex Work: An Analysis of Xiaojies' Understandings of Work in the Pearl River Delta Area, China	p. 123
The Politics and Practice of Intimate Relationships
The Sexual Politics of Difference in Post-IMF Korea: Challenges of the Lesbian Rights and Sex Workers' Movements	p. 141
'How Did You Two Meet?' Lesbian Partnerships in Present-day Japan	p. 161
Chinese Women's Stories of Love, Marriage and Sexuality	p. 178
Talking about 'Good Sex': Hong Kong Women's Sexuality in the Twenty-first Century	p. 195
Becoming 'the First Wives': Gender, Intimacy and the Regional Economy across the Taiwan Straitc	p. 216
Index	p. 236
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East Asian Sexualities Modernity, Gender & New Sexual Cultures

East Asian Sexualities Modernity, Gender & New Sexual Cultures

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