TY  - GEN
T1  - Sexuality in a changing China : young women, sex and intimate relations in the reform period
T2  - Routledge research on gender in Asia series
A1  - Zarafonetis, Nicole
LA  - English
PP  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn987792592
AB  - China has experienced rapid economic and social change since the beginning of the 'Open Door' policy in 1978. Yet at the same time, the legacy of the Mao era remains and elements of Confucianism continue to exist in the reform period. As a result, traditional views concerning gender roles and sexual attitudes and practices persist. Based on interviews with forty-three women in Shanghai, this book investigates the way in which young women, born under the one child policy in China, consider sexuality and intimate relations in the 21st Century. Covering their thoughts and views on issues such as sex education, the rise of 'dating culture' and 'ideal' husbands, it is argued that reform China offers young women a series of contradictory expectations of sex and relationships. Despite the Party-State rhetoric of equality, participant narratives ultimately highlight the limited discourse of desire and sexual autonomy available to young women, the prevalence of essentialist notions of femininity and masculinity and the continuing norm of marriage as the only legitimate context for female sexual expression. 0.
OP  - 172
CN  - HQ18.C6 Z37 2017eb
SN  - 9781315293912
SN  - 1315293919
SN  - 9781315293936
SN  - 1315293935
SN  - 9781315293929
SN  - 1315293927
SN  - 9781315293905
SN  - 1315293900
SN  - 9781138240148
SN  - 1138240141
KW  - Sex : China.
KW  - Sex instruction : China.
KW  - Sex role : China.
KW  - Dating (Social customs) : China.
KW  - Marriage : China.
KW  - Women : China : Social conditions.
KW  - Sexualité : Chine.
KW  - Éducation sexuelle : Chine.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe : Chine.
KW  - Amours : Chine.
KW  - Mariage : Chine.
KW  - Femmes : Chine : Conditions sociales.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - Dating (Social customs)
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Sex
KW  - Sex instruction
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Women : Social conditions
KW  - China
KW  - Junge Frau
KW  - Geschlechterrolle
KW  - Sexualverhalten
KW  - Partnerwahl
KW  - Soziale Norm
ER  -