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Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China

2013 Hong Kong University Press ;ISBN: 9888139452 ;ISBN: 9789888139453 ;EISBN: 9789882208452 ;EISBN: 9882208452 ;OCLC: 827208606

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  • Title:
    Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China
  • Author: KAM, LUCETTA Y. L
  • Subjects: Robotics ; Robots ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Urban
  • Description: This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas’ everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women’s active and legitimate sexual agency. Lucetta Yip Lo Kam reads discourses on homophobia in China, including the rhetoric of “Chinese tolerance” and considers the heteronormative demands imposed on tongzhi subjects. She treats “the politics of public correctness” as a newly emerging tongzhi practice developed from the culturally specific, Chinese forms of regulation that inform tongzhi survival strategies and self-identification. Alternating between Kam’s own queer biography and her extensive ethnographic findings, this text offers a contemporary portrait of female tongzhi communities and politics in urban China, making an invaluable contribution to global discussions and international debates on same-sex intimacies, homophobia, coming-out politics, and sexual governance.
  • Publisher: Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 152
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9888139452
    ISBN: 9789888139453
    EISBN: 9789882208452
    EISBN: 9882208452
    OCLC: 827208606
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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