Hunting Warbirds by Carl Hoffman

Hunting Warbirds by Carl Hoffman

Discussions of sexuality in Asia and the Pacific have long been tinged with conceptions of the exotic Orient. Examining a world of erotic encounter between European, Asian, and Pacific people, these essays explore how sexual practices and sexual meanings have been constructed across cultural borders in Thailand, the Philippines, Burma/Myanmar, Japan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the Polynesian islands. Considering sexuality as embedded in a complex social and political world structured and saturated by gender, race, and class relations, these scholars challenge the categories with which sex and gender have been named and studied. They examine these sites of desire through specific historic and cultural circumstances, from the first explorations of Europeans, through colonial power, to the contemporary issues of sexual tourism, prostitution, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
A unique and important contribution to the study of sexuality, this book also suggests that the history of sexuality in the West was shaped by myths of the legendary Orient and the exotic Other.

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ISBN 13	9780345436177
ISBN 10	0345436172
Title	Hunting Warbirds
Author	Carl Hoffman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2001-04-03
Number of pages	245
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