Sexual Cultures in East Asia. The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS

Based on case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship systems, matrimonial strategies, gender, power relations, and the relevance of cultural constructs such as Confucianism and Taoism for the analysis of sexual cultures in Asia. Content Part One: Sexual Cultures: Caught Between Traditions and Transitions 1. Social Significance of Commercial Sex Work: Implicity Shaping a Sexual Culture? Evelyne Micollier 2. Three 'Red Light Districts' in China Pan Suiming 3. Japanese Sex Workers: Between Choice and Coersion Wim Lunsing 4. Dutiful Daughters and Temporary Wives: Economic Dependency on Commercial Sex in Vietnam an Walters 5. What is Known about Gender, the Constructs of Sexuality and Dictates of Behaviour in Vietnam as a Confusian and Socialist Society and their Impact on the Risk of HIV/AIDS Epidemic Paula-Frances Kelly 6. The Broken Women of Cambodia Annuska Derks Part Two; The Social Construction of Sexual Risk in the Light of STDs/AIDS Control 7. Public Health Policy vs. Colonial Laissez-Faire: Stds and Prostitution in Republican Shanghai Christian Henriot 8. Representations of 'Us' and 'Others' in the AIDS News Discourse: A Tawanese Experience Mei-Ling Hsu, Wen-Chi Lin and Tsui-Sung Wu 9. AIDS and Civil Society in Taiwan Evelyne Micollier 10. The Sex Education for Vietnamese Adolescents in the Context of HIV/AIDS Epidemic: The NGOs, the School, the Family and the Civil Society Marie-Eve Blanc 10. Sex Works in Times of AIDS, Caught between the Visible and the Invisible Ivan Wolffers, Paula Kelly, and Anke van der Kwaak Order this book today at: www.routledge.com/paperbacksdirect Paperback 0-415-40592-0 £20.0