Sexual Cultures in East Asia

Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship systems, matrimonial strategies, gender, power relations, and the relevance of cultural constructs such as Confucianism and Taoism for the analysis of sexual cultures in Asia.

Evelyne Micollier is an Affiliated Research Fellow of the International Institute of Asian Studies, The Netherlands.

Part One: Sexual Cultures: Caught Between Traditions and Transitions1. Social Significance of Commercial Sex Work: Implicity Shaping a Sexual Culture? Evelyne Micollier2. Three 'Red Light Districts' in China Pan Suiming3. Japanese Sex Workers: Between Choice and Coersion Wim Lunsing4. Dutiful Daughters and Temporary Wives: Economic Dependency on Commercial Sex in Vietnam an Walters5. What is Known about Gender, the Constructs of Sexuality and Dictates of Behaviour in Vietnam as a Confusian and Socialist Society and their Impact on the Risk of HIV/AIDS Epidemic Paula-Frances Kelly6. The Broken Women of Cambodia Annuska DerksPart Two; The Social Construction of Sexual Risk in the Light of STDs/AIDS Control7. Public Health Policy vs. Colonial Laissez-Faire: Stds and Prostitution in Republican Shanghai Christian Henriot8. Representations of 'Us' and 'Others' in the AIDS News Discourse: A Tawanese Experience Mei-Ling Hsu, Wen-Chi Lin and Tsui-Sung Wu9. AIDS and Civil Society in Taiwan Evelyne Micollier10. The Sex Education for Vietnamese Adolescents in the Context of HIV/AIDS Epidemic: The NGOs, the School, the Family and the Civil Society Marie-Eve Blanc10. Sex Works in Times of AIDS, Caught between the Visible and the Invisible Ivan Wolffers, Paula Kelly, and Anke van der Kwaak