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This work offers an up-to-date, grounded, critical analysis of the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, and political economy across a diverse array of Asian societies. Based on intense ethnographic fieldwork, the chapters disentangle the ways in which gendered and sexual experiences are impinged upon by state policies, economic realities, cultural ideologies, and social hierarchies

In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings and micro-politics of family structure, gender relationships, intimate romance, transactional sex, and sexual behaviors?This volume offers up-to-date, grounded, critical analysis of the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, and political economy across a diverse array of Asian societies: China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan. Based on intense ethnographic fieldwork, the chapters disentangle the ways in which gendered and sexual experiences are impinged upon by state policies, economic realities, cultural ideologies, and social hierarchies. Whether highlighting intimate relationships between elite businessmen and their mistresses in China; nightclub performances by Thai men in Bangkok; single women's views of romance, motherhood, and marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo; or male same-sex relationships in Pakistan—each chapter centers around the stories of the gendered subjects themselves and how they are shaped by outside forces. Taken together they provide a provocative entrée into the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in Asia.By foregrounding cross-cultural ethnographic research, this volume sheds light on how configurations of gender and sexuality are constituted, negotiated, contested, transformed, and at times, perpetuated and reproduced in private, intimate experiences. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and women's and LGBTQ studies.

1. The NGO-ification of the anti-trafficking movement in the United States : a case study of the coalition to abolish slavery and trafficking / Jennifer Lynne Musto -- 2. Beyond "tragedy" : a cultural critique of sex trafficking of young Iranian women / Sholeh Shahrokhi -- 3. From Thailand with love : transnational marriage migration in the global care economy / Sine Plambech -- 4. Beyond the victim : capabilities and livelihood in Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong / Leah Briones -- 5. Anti-trafficking campaign and the sex industry in urban China / Tiantian Zheng -- 6. Invisible agents, hollow bodies : neoliberal notions of "sex trafficking" from Syracuse to Sarajevo / Susan Dewey -- 7. Escaping statism : from the paradigm of trafficking to the migration trajectories of West African sex workers in Paris / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- 8. Representing sex trafficking in Southeast Asia? : the victim staged / Nicolas Lainez -- 9. Legislating the trafficking and slavery of women and girls : the criminalization of marriage, tradition, and gender norms in French Colonial Cameroon, 1914-1945 / Charlotte Walker -- 10. Countering the trafficking paradigm : the role of family obligations, remittance, and investment strategies among migrant sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico / Yasmina Katsulis, Kate Weinkauf and Elena Frank -- 11. Between trafficking discourses and sexual agency : Brazilian female sex workers in Spain / Adriana Piscitelli -- 12. So if you are not "Nastasha," who are you? : revealing the other trafficked women and their uses? / John Davies and Benjamin Davies.

Explores the life experiences, agency, and human rights of trafficked women in order to shed light on the complicated processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice are intersected.

In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses--a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers. Zheng embarked on two years of intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace, Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million people

In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses--a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these women often have as power brokers. Zheng embarked on two years of intensely embedded ethnographic fieldwork in her birthplace, Dalian, a large northeastern Chinese seaport of over six million people.