Rofel / Halberstam / Lowe Desiring China

Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8990-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

An ethnography of gender, sexuality, and consumption in post-socialist China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rofel, Lisa

Halberstam, Judith

Lowe, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Yearnings: Televisual Love and Melodramatic Politics 31
2. Museum as Women’s Space: Displays of Gender 65
3. Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities 85
4. From Sacrifice to Desire: Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics 111
5. Legislating Desire: Homosexuality, Intellectual Property Rights, and Consumer Fraud 135
6. Desiring China: China’s Entry into the WTO 157
Coda 197
Notes 205
Works Cited 229
Index 247

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism and a coeditor of Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State.