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Sex and desire in Hong Kong
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Petula Sik Ying
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st edition
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2013
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (344 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9789888139156, 9789882209756, 9888139150, 9789882209411, 9882209750, 9882209416
- OCLC
- ocn814551623
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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