Mackie Vera - Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia

Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia

This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations in constructions of sexuality in highly developed, developing and emerging societies and economies.

Both Japan and China have established traditions of sexuality studies reflecting longstanding indigenous understandings of sex, as well as more recent developments that interface with Euro-American medical and psychological understandings. Authors reflect upon the complex colonial and economic interactions and cultural flows that have affected the East Asian region over the last two centuries. They trace local flows of ideas instead of defaulting to Euro-American paradigms for sexuality studies.

Through looking at regional and global exchanges of ideas about sexuality, this volume adds considerably to our understanding of the East Asian region and contributes to wider discussions of social transformation, modernisation and globalisation. It is essential reading in undergraduate and graduate programs on sexuality studies, gender studies, womens studies and masculinity studies, as well as on anthropology, sociology, history, cultural studies, area studies and health sciences.

Mark McLelland is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Vera Mackie is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

At last, a dazzling and comprehensive collection that sets a new benchmark in East Asian studies. The international experts in this smart volume explore a range of significant topics, from sexual minorities to sexual politics, placing sexuality studies front and center on the Asian studies bookshelf. Pioneering, thought-provoking, and deeply knowledgeable.

Laura Miller, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA

Widely-ranging and rigorous, the essays in McLelland and Mackies important anthology are robustly materialist, in that they entwine the historical, sociocultural, postindustrial, and intersubjective terrains that spawn local-global forms and practices of sexualities. This book will give East Asian studies a cutting-edge research agenda, while refurbishing the cultural studies of sexuality in the region with new vitality.

John Nguyet Erni, Professor of Humanities & Cultural Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University

This handbook is a stunning achievement that brings together a wide range of careful but innovative scholars to explore East Asian sexualities in a transnational frame. The handbook attends to both regional comparison and local specificity, exploring topics ranging from marriage to politics, from subcultures to national rhetorics of belonging.

Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine, USA

Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia

Edited by
Mark McLelland and Vera Mackie

First published 2015

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Routledge handbook of sexuality studies in East Asia / edited by Mark McLelland and Vera Mackie.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sex--East Asia--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. McLelland, Mark J., 1966- editor of compilation.

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2014002179

ISBN: 978-0-415-63948-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-77487-9 (ebk)

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Contents

Vera Mackie and Mark McLelland

Mark Pendleton

Fran Martin

Tomoko Nakamatsu

Vera Mackie and Miyume Tanji

Lucetta Yip Lo Kam

Hyaeweol Choi

Catherine Earl

Suzy Kim

Douglas Sanders

James Farrer

Franck Bill

Setsu Shigematsu

Travis S.K. Kong, Sky H.L. Lau, and Eva C.Y. Li

Patrick W. Galbraith

Denise Tse-Shang Tang

Claire Maree

Katsuhiko Suganuma

Natalie Newton

Elaine Jeffreys

Kaoru Aoyama

Ruth Barraclough

Catherine E. Carlson, Laura Cordisco Tsai, Toivgoo Aira, Marion Riedel, and Susan S. Witte

Mei-Hua Chen

Kazuya Kawaguchi

Tine M. Gammeltoft and Nguyn Thu Huong

Johanna Hood

Katrina L. Moore

Mei Ning Yan

Mark McLelland

Heung Wah Wong and Hoi Yan Yau

Figures

Tables

Editors

Mark McLelland, University of Wollongong

Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong

Advisory board

Anne Allison, Duke University

Dennis Altman, La Trobe University

Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina

Ruth Barraclough, Australian National University

Hyaeweol Choi, Australian National University

Mark Driscoll, University of North Carolina

Elaine Jeffreys, University of Technology, Sydney

Kazuya Kawaguchi, Hiroshima Shudo University

Suk-young Kim, University of California, Santa Barbara

Li Narangoa, Australian National University

Fran Martin, University of Melbourne

Katsuhiko Suganuma, University of Tasmania

Philip Taylor, Australian National University

John Whittier Treat, Yale University

Toivgoo Aira has over 20 years of experience working as an STI, HIV, AIDS medical doctor in the hospital of dermato-venereology and as a head of STI, HIV, AIDS in-patients clinic of the National Center for Communicable Diseases in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She has an MPH from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1997) and completed a doctoral program (2005) in Public Health at Kochi University (Japan). She is now working as an executive director of Wellspring NGO, activities of which focus on public health, including behavioral research.

Kaoru Aoyama is a sociologist and associate professor in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University in Japan. She gained her doctorate from the University of Essex. Her current research interests focus on issues around migration, sexwork, trafficking, social exclusion, and the transformation of the intimate sphere. She is the author of