China's Commercial Sexscapes: Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice - Couverture rigide

Tsang, Eileen Yuk-ha

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1487505884 ISBN 13 : 9781487505882

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2019

Synopsis

Exploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China's Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker and client relationships, and places them within the wider implications of expanding globalization and capitalism.

The book is based in large part upon interviews with sex workers and their clients the author conducted while undercover as a bartender in Dongguan, an important industrial city in Guangdong province and an explicit, complicated, and multidimensional setting for study. In the wake of the financial crisis, the purchasing of sex by single, young-adult males has become an increasingly socially acceptable way for men to perform and experience heteronormative masculinity. Investigating human rights, social policy, and the criminal justice system in China, this book applies the concept of "edgework" to the commercial sex industry in Dongguan to study how men and women interact within the changing global economy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487505884
• ISBN 13: 9781487505882
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible