Sex, culture, and modernity in China : medical science and the construction of sexual identities in...
Sex, culture, and modernity in China : medical science and the construction of sexual identities in...
Sex, culture, and modernity in China : medical science and the construction of sexual identities in the early Republican period / Frank Dikötter.
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1995.
Call Numbers
N306.0951/8
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 233 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The Passive Sex: The Naturalization of Gender Distinctions -- 3. Sexual Desire and Human Procreation -- 4. 'Four Hundred Million Siblings': The Regulation of 'Population' -- 5. 'Civilization is Syphilization': The Cultural Meanings of 'Disease' -- 6. The Cultural Construction o...
Publication information
Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1995.
Place of Publication
Hawaii
Date Published
c1995.
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Summary
Although new categories of analysis, such as 'population', 'race', 'sex', 'woman' and 'youth' were introduced to early Republican China from abroad, their reception and adaptation were founded on cultural reorientations which may have taken place as long before as the 17th and 18th centuries. Instead of describing the rise of normative naturalism a...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Sex, culture, and modernity in China : medical science and the construction of sexual identities in the early Republican period / Frank Dikötter.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-221) and index.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
c1995.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
N306.0951/8
Record Identifier
74VMBQAgLNWX
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMBQAgLNWX
Other Identifiers
ISBN
0824816765
9780824816766
DDC
306.0951
3060951
MMS ID
991002487309702626
