China, sex and prostitution

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RoutledgeCurzon studies on China in transition. - London [u.a.] : RoutledgeCurzon. - Vol. 18

Inhalt: INTRODUCTION: TELLING TALES: In search of authentic native voices; Authenticity as academic capital; Another native voice: the alternative translator; Telling popular institutional tales; Reading 'China' differently -- 1. CHANGING CHINA: CHANGING CHINA STUDIES: The impact of theory Problematizing China Studies; The Uses and potential misuses of theory Contemporary sinological studies revisited -- 2. CHANGING INSTITUTIONAL CATEGORIES AND ACADEMIC LEGITIMACY: The ins and outs of the poststructuralists academe; The ins and outs of China studies; Sexuality is 'in' and sex is 'back' in China -- 3. FEMINIST PROSTITUTION DEBATES AND RESPONSES: Prostitution and the new humanities; The development of theoretical approaches; Prostitution and 'the sex wars'; Feminist legal responses to prostitution; Transnational prostitution debates -- 4. PROSTITUTION DEBATES AND A CHANGING CHINA: Prostitution as a 'new' object of discourse in China; Responses to prostitution in reform-era China; Prostitution in reform-era China as an object of metropolitan discourses -- 5. RE-SITUATING THE CHINESE RESPONSE TO PROSTITUTION: The feminist turn to human rights law; Governmentality: getting rid of 'the Chinese State'; The body of Chinese prostitution law -- 6. POLICING CHANGE: CHANGING DISCIPLINARY TECHNOLOGIES: Policing change: changing police; Changing police: policing prostitution; Policing prostitution: changing disciplinary technologies -- CONCLUSION: CHINA, SEX AND PROSTITUTION RECONSIDERED: China's response to prostitution reconsidered; Transnational prostitution debates reconsidered