Sex, Culture and Modernity in China. Medical Science and the Construction of Sexual Identities in the Early Republican Period.
London. Hurst & Co., 1995. Stock ID #166675 "With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order. The construction of sexuality as a dangerous drive which was thought to form the very core of the individual led to the emergence of a wide range of identities like the menstruating girl, the hysterical housewife, the masturbating adolescence and the syphilitic husband. The naturalization of desire also introduced a tension between the sexual responsibilities of the individual and the coercive intervention of civil society in the name of the collective health of future generations." - Dustjacket blurb. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166675.
Black and white illustrations, ix + 233pp, index, bibliography, spine a touch sunned, very good hardback copy in dustjacket.
Price: $50.00 AU