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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 187–198.
Published: 01 February 2014
... This is laid out in chapter 1 based on a variety of secondary sources, including, importantly,
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, Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 2003 ) . 11
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, America's Geisha Ally...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 881–909.
Published: 01 November 2005
... Asia Program . Bangkok Calendar . 1859–63. Bangkok: American Missionary Association Press. Barmé Scot . 2002 . Woman, Man, Bangkok: Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield . Batson Benjamin . 1984 . The End of the Absolute Monarchy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 676–678.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Jun Okada The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema . By Gina Marchetti . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2012 . xii, 242 pp. $79.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 In her new book, Gina Marchetti expands...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2013
... ) lived with their parents. They also engaged in prostitution to varying degrees. Because brothel keepers in Yoshiwara feared that geisha would poach their clients, geisha who worked in that quarter insisted that they did not sell sex. But those in the tacitly sanctioned entertainment district of Fukagawa...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 963–964.
Published: 01 August 1970
...George B. Simmons Size and Sex Composition of Population in India: 1901–1961 . By P. B. Desai . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1969 . 263 pp. Appendices, Tables, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 963 that politicization...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 449–451.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Shana Ye Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires . By Francisca Yuenki Lai . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2020 . 140 pp. ISBN: 9789888528332 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 The current field of labor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 433–434.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Ben Tran Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945 . By Christina Elizabeth Firpo . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2020 . 259 pp. ISBN: 9781501752650 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Christina Elizabeth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 790–792.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Rumya Putcha Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought . By Durba Mitra . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2020 . vii, 290 pp. ISBN: 9780691196343 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1111–1112.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Lucinda Ramberg Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala . By Navaneetha Mokkil . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2019 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780295745572 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022 2022 How does...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 775–776.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Wenqing Kang Sex in China utilizes much of the existing scholarship on sexuality in China, and thus introduces readers to a selection of works on the topic. Unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to tell whether Jeffreys and Yu are making their own arguments or reiterating those of other...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 929–936.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the 1910s about chastity and prostitution, the arguments for and against the abolition of licensed prostitution in 1956, and the discussions of the commodification of sex in the 1980s. Her chapter on reproduction focuses on abortion with respect to four major themes: economic distress, eugenics, nature...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (2): 229–251.
Published: 01 February 1968
.... Political scientists have paid relatively little attention to this largest minority in the world of politics. Women constitute more than one half of the total population in many parts of the world today, yet the differences in sex is treated along with other demographic variables and receives little...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 91.
Published: 01 November 1960
...Leo Orleans The Population of Asia and the Far East, 1950–1980. Future Population Estimates by Sex and Age. Report IV . New York : United Nations Publications, Department of Economic and Social Affairs , 1959 . Population Studies No. 31. viii , 110 . Map, Appendix. $1.50 (paper...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 703–724.
Published: 01 August 2016
..., revealing that sex between men was neither rare nor secret to most denizens of the city. Much older practices and vocabularies surrounding male-male sex endured, even flourished, for far longer than the media or elite discourse might lead one to expect. Testimonies in these archives also make clear how...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 238–239.
Published: 01 February 2019
... sex and sexuality. Robinson presents several of the key gender debates that emerged out of the Reformasi period, including those surrounding the election of Indonesia's first female president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, the new visibility of polygyny, and the passage of a law outlawing pornography...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 775–776.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Amita Baviskar Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai . By Svati P. Shah . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2014. 280 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 The topic of sexual...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Fang Tang Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness . By Lily Wong . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . xiv, 229 pp. ISBN: 9780231183383 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 479–481.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity, and Representations . Edited by Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies . New York : Routledge , 2015 . xviii, 328 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 890–893.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Jieyu Liu Both studies contribute to our knowledge of migrant labor in post-Mao China. In particular, Zheng's book provides a fresh and engaging account of the lives of migrant workers in the sex industry. Zheng's detailed reflection on her ethnographic approach captures the emotions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 950–952.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism , the Buddha is commonly depicted in Buddhist texts and art as hypermasculine, physically powerful, and sexually magnetic despite his famous rejection of wife, kingdom, and lineage. Furthermore, Indian Buddhist traditions defend the masculinity of Buddhist...
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