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- Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific
Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1997. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. One of my very favorite readers in gender and sexuality, another fine contribution to the Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society, edited by two leading lights, Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Contributions by the two editors, and by Jeffrey Clark, Lisa Law, Doug Porter, Jeffrey Clark, John D. Kelly, Adam Reed, and many others. From the publisher's blurb, "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." Examining erotic encounters between European, Asian and Pacific people, these essays explore how sexual practice and sexual meanings have been constructed across cultural borders in Thailand, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Polynesian islands." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine
USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 | £UK 19 | JP¥ 3787] Booknumber: 356764
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USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 | £UK 19 | JP¥ 3787] Booknumber: 356764
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Total: USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 | £UK 19 | JP¥ 3787]
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