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Loading... Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China (Queer Asia)by Lucetta Yip Lo Kam
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.906Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people People by occupation and miscellaneous social statuses Sexuality; MigrantsLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |