Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China : Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism - Tiantian Zheng

Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China

Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism

By: Tiantian Zheng

Paperback | 1 March 2012 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


$101.07

or 4 interest-free payments of $25.27 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days

Based on three years of extensive fieldwork, this ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses. Tiantian Zheng delves into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women’s bodies.

More in Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Our World : Bardi-Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon - One Arm Point Remote Community School

RRP $33.00

$24.80

25%
OFF
Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

RRP $27.99

$26.50

The Will to Change : Men, Masculinity, and Love - bell hooks
Doing Theology with Photographs - Sarah Dunlop

RRP $130.00

$97.75

25%
OFF
Doing Theology with Photographs - Sarah Dunlop

RRP $44.99

$44.50

Italy in a Wineglass : The Taste of History - Marc Millon
Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari

RRP $24.99

$23.75

Guns, Germs And Steel : The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
Us Mob Walawurru - David Spillman

$17.99

Bullshit Jobs : A Theory - David Graeber

RRP $24.99

$23.75

The Way We Are : Lessons from a lifetime of listening - Hugh Mackay
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? : The Dark Emu Debate - Keryn Walshe
I am Uluru : A Family's Story - Jen Cowley

RRP $39.95

$37.95

The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity - David Graeber
On Our Best Behaviour : The Price Women Pay to Be Good - Elise Loehnen