China's Commercial Sexscapes

Rethinking Intimacy, Masculinity, and Criminal Justice

Eileen Yuk-Ha Tsang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0588-2 (ISBN)

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This book assesses the intimate relationships between sex workers and clients in post-reform China, where normative ideals concerning masculine and feminine behaviour are the primary goal of these relationships.

Exploring the experiences of both male clients and female sex workers, China’s Commercial Sexscapes expands upon the complex dynamics of sex worker and client relationships, and places them within the wider implications of expanding globalization and capitalism.

The book is based in large part upon interviews with sex workers and their clients the author conducted while undercover as a bartender in Dongguan, an important industrial city in Guangdong province and an explicit, complicated, and multidimensional setting for study. In the wake of the financial crisis, the purchasing of sex by single, young-adult males has become an increasingly socially acceptable way for men to perform and experience heteronormative masculinity. Investigating human rights, social policy, and the criminal justice system in China, this book applies the concept of "edgework" to the commercial sex industry in Dongguan to study how men and women interact within the changing global economy.

Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Method

1. Urban Sexscapes: A Snapshop of China’s Commercial Sex Industries

Part Two: "Tempting Girls" and Clients in Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets

2. Finding Hope as a "Tempting Girl" in China: Sex Work, Indentured Mobility, and Cosmopolitan Individualism

3. Disappointed and Despondent: How Young-Adult Male Migrants Contest Masculinity in China’s Low-End and Mid-Tier Niche Markets

Part Three: Intimacy and Masculinity in High-End Niche Markets

4. Reframing Love with a "Dirty Girl": High-End Sex Work and Intimate Relations in Urban China

5. Reciprocating Desires: The Pursuit of Desirable East Asian Femininity in China’s Commercial Sex Industry

Part Four: Social Policy Implications and Criminal Justice

6. Selling Commercial Sex as Edgework

7. Profit-Making Disguised as Rehabilitation: The Biopolitics of the Homo Sacer in China’s Custody Education Program for Sex Workers

Conclusion: Understanding the New Trends in China's Commercial Sex Industry

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2019
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4875-0588-4 / 1487505884
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-0588-2 / 9781487505882
Zustand	Neuware