Sex and Sexuality in China

'This volume makes a very valuable contribution to the small but growing scholarship on sex and sexuality in China' - Tamara Jacka, Intersections, May 2007'This volume represents a significant contribution to the critical task of studying sex and sexuality within non-Western contexts. It will be of interest to anyone hoping to theorize and understand sexual cultures within such contexts and also helpful to scholars of Western sexuality seeking to understand the variances that Foucault highlighted between Western and non-Western cultures of sexuality.' - Elanah Uretsky, The China Journal, No 58, July 2007Elaine Jeffreys’ fine introduction pays as much attention to discourse about sex and sexuality as about behavior, seeing them more as social constructs than as “natural.” She reinforces the argument made by many of the volume’s authors that the “standard narrative that celebrates China’s belated entry on the Long March to global modernity, epitomized by Western-style sexual and political liberation” (p. 2) is misguided. - SUE GRONEWOLD, China Information, 2008; 22; 155

• Introduction: Talking Sex and Sexuality in China 1. Transformations in the Primary Life Cycle: The Origins and Nature of China’s Sexual Revolution 2. Sex, Politics and the Policing of Virtue in the People’s Republic of China 3. Contesting Citizenship: Marriage and Divorce in the People’s Republic of China 4. Regulating Male Same-Sex Relationships in the People's Republic of China 5. Sexual Citizenship and the Politics of Sexual Storytelling among Chinese Youth 6. Selling Sexual Health: China's Emerging Sex Shop Industry 7. Female Sex Sellers and Public Policy in the People’s Republic of China 8. Debating the Legal Regulation of Sex-Related Bribery and Corruption in the People's Republic of China