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Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism 2009th Edition
Author(s): T. Zheng (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 2 April 2012
- Edition: 2009th
- Language: English
- Print length: 254 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230340997
- ISBN-13: 9780230340992
Book Description
This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving 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.
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About the Author
TIANTIAN ZHENG is Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at State University of New York, USA, and author of Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China.
