Sex and desire in Hong Kong [electronic resource] / Petula Sik Ying Ho and A. Ka Tat Tsang.

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-335) and index.

pt. I. On elite discourse and everyday language -- 1. Lost in translation : sex and sexuality in elite discourse and everyday language -- pt. II Body: Penis, vagina/clitoris, anus -- 2. The things girls shouldn't see : relocating the penis in sex education -- in Hong Kong -- 3. Beyond the vagina-clitoris debate : from naming the genitals to reclaiming the woman's body -- pt. III Identity: As gay, as si-nai, as mother, as patient -- 4. Male homosexual identity in Hong Kong : a social construction -- 5. Beyond being gay : the proliferation of political identities in colonial Hong Kong -- 6. Breaking down or breaking through: An alternative way to understanding depression among women in Hong Kong -- 7. Desperate housewives : the case of Chinese si-nais in Hong Kong -- 8. Eternal mothers or flexible housewives? : middle-aged Chinese married women in Hong Kong -- pt. IV Relationships : marriage, multiple sex partners, interracial relationships -- 9. The (charmed) circle game: Reflections on sexual hierarchy through multiple sexual relationships -- 10. Not-so-great expectations: Sex and housewives in Hong Kong -- 11. Negotiating anal intercourse in interracial gay relationships in Hong Kong -- pt. V Desire: Money, happiness and the self -- 12. Money in the private chamber : strategies for retirement planning among Hong Kong Chinese women -- 13. Cyber self-centres? : Hong Kong young women and their personal websites -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

This anthology collects fifteen years of sexuality research by Petula Sik Ying Ho and A. Ka Tat Tsang, showing how the authors' viewpoints and constructs in sexuality have changed in recent decades, thereby opening more discussion space on sexuality. Ho and Tsang provide an exemplary model of community-based research on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged women in Hong Kong over a span of over fifteen years. The anthology is divided into five parts and covers elite discourse and everyday language used in sexuality studies, the body and its sexual organs, identity and its relation to sexuality, relationships in marriages, multiple sexual partners and inter-racial partnerships as well as desire and how it relates to money, happiness and the self. Together with a Chinese edition, this material seeks to create a bridge between Chinese and Western scholarship on sexuality, allowing wider dissemination of academic knowledge in both languages.

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