Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, Hiv/Aids, and Nationalism

Based on three years of extensive fieldwork, this ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses. Tiantian Zheng delves into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies.

Author: T. Zheng
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/02/2012
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230340992

About the Author
TIANTIAN ZHENG is Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at State University of New York, USA, and author of Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China.