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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 881–909.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Tamara Loos Sex in the Inner City: The Fidelity between Sex and Politics in Siam TAMARA LOOS I will not introduce a caocom [to a potential lover] or be an accomplice to any caocom who af liates with a man as an adulterer, nor [will I be an accomplice to] any silvertongued go-between, nor will I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 187–198.
Published: 01 February 2014
... to think about the sex industry in a far more nuanced way than is commonly done. Social diversity, changing cultural norms, and an almost endless trail of adjunct business opportunities make sex work a subject through which to understand both the political economy and social change in early postwar Japan...
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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 (2019) 78 (4): 929–936.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Sally Hastings Rethinking Japanese Feminisms . Edited by Julia C. Bullock , Ayako Kano , and James Welker . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2018 . viii, 301 pp. ISBN: 9780824866693 (cloth). Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor...
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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 (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 (2015) 74 (3): 775–776.
Published: 01 August 2015
... is the sense of majboori (compulsion). Women everywhere said that sexual commerce was pet ke liye , necessary to feed themselves. This is a truism and does not illuminate why a woman turned to sex work rather than construction or domestic labor at a specific time in her life. Most of the women came from...
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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 (2019) 78 (1): 238–239.
Published: 01 February 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 . London : Routledge , 2015 . xviii, 328 pp. ISBN: 9780415731287 (cloth, also available in paper and as e...
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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
... who denigrated the sex trade as uncivilized. Following precedent established in treaty ports, where foreigners had demanded that the prostitutes who served them be tested for syphilis, local officials had begun to implement mandatory medical examinations for licensed prostitutes. In some areas, geisha...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 775–776.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Wenqing Kang Sex in China . By Elaine Jeffreys with Haiqing Yu . Cambridge, UK : Polity Press , 2015 . ix, 232 pp. ISBN: 9780745656144 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017 2017 Sex in China introduces readers...
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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 (2004) 63 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 February 2004
...Miryam Sas Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art . Edited by Fran Lloyd . London : Reaktion Books , 2003 . 224 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 196 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S by Three Drunkards...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 1093–1095.
Published: 01 November 2004
...Susanne Mrozik Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion . By Hugh B. Urban . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2003 . xvi , 372 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). B O O K R E...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 February 2005
.... PETER LORGE Vanderbilt University Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. By SABINE FRU¨ HSTU¨ CK. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. x, 267 pp. $19.95 (paper). In the rst half of the 1990s, historians such as Laura Engelstein, Roy Porter, and Lesley...
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