Gender and sexuality in modern Chinese history

"Susan Mann focuses on the often neglected issue of the transformation of sexuality and gender in China, from the late imperial times to modern times"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mann, Susan, 1943-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:New approaches to Asian history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Gender, Sexuality, and the State: 1. Family and state: the separation of the sexes; 2. Traffic in women and the problem of single men; 3. Gender relations in politics and law; Part II. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body: 4. The body in medicine, art, and sport; 5. Adorning, displaying, concealing, and altering the body; 6. Abandoning the body: female suicide and female infanticide; Part III. Gender, Sexuality, and the 'Other': 7. Same-sex relationships and trans-gendered performance; 8. Sexuality in the creative imagination; 9. Sexuality and the 'other'; Conclusion: gender, sexuality and, citizenship.