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Overview"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.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lenore Manderson , Margaret JollyPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Volume: 1997 Dimensions: Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9780226503035ISBN 10: 0226503038 Pages: 375 Publication Date: 18 August 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure in Asia and the Pacific Lenore Manderson, Margaret Jolly. Ch. 1: Educating Desire in Colonial Southeast Asia: Foucault, Freud and Imperial Sexualities Ann Staler Ch. 2: Contested Images and Common Strategies: Early Colonial Sexual Politics in the Massim Adam Reed Ch. 3: Gaze and Grasp: Plantations, Desires, Indentured Indians, and Colonial Law in Fiji John D. Kelly Ch. 4: From Point Venus to Bali Ha'i: Eroticism and Exoticism in Representations of the Pacific Margaret Jolly Ch. 5: Parables of Imperialism and Fantasies of the Exotic: Western Representations and Thailand - Place and Sex Lenore Manderson Ch. 6: Primal Dream: Masculinism, Sin and Salvation in Thailand's Sex Trade Annette Hamilton Ch. 7: Kathoey >< Man: The Historical Emergence of Gay Male Identity in Thailand Peter A. Jackson Ch. 8: State of Desire: Transformations in Huli Sexuality Jeffrey Clark Ch. 9: A Plague on the Borders: HIV, Development, and Traveling Identities in the Golden Triangle Doug Porter Ch. 10: A Matter of Choice : Discourses on Prostitution in the Philippines Lisa Law Ch. 11: The Foreign Devil Returns: Packaging Sexual Practice and Risk in Contemporary Japan Sandra Buckley Notes Bibliography Filmography Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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