The Emerging Lesbian : Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China Hardback
by Tze-Lan D. Sang
Part of the Worlds of Desire series
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In early 20th-century China, age-old traditions of homosocial and homoerotic relationships between women suddenly became an issue of widespread public concern.
Discussed formerly in terms of friendship and sisterhood, these relations came to be associated with feminism, on the one hand, and psychobiological perversion, on the other - a radical shift whose origins have long been unclear.
In this first ever book-length study of Chinese lesbians, Tze-lan D.
Sang convincingly ties the debate over female same-sex love in China to the emergence of Chinese modernity.
As women's participation in social, economic and political affairs grew, Sang argues, so too did the social significance of their romantic and sexual relations.
Focusing especially on literature by or about women-preferring women, Sang traces the history of female same-sex relations in China from the late imperial period (1600-1911) through the Republiican era (1912-1949).
She ends by examining the reemergence of public debate on lesbians in China after Mao and in Taiwan after martial law, including the important roles played by globalization and identity politics.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:392 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2003
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- ISBN:9780226734781
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:392 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226734781
