Governing the Selling and Buying of Sex in the People's Republic of China
Start year: 2003
Summary: This project will reconfigure international prostitution debates by mapping the complex governmental landscape in which the regulation of the selling and buying of sex in present-day China is taking place. International commentators have recently criticised China's prostitution controls for contravening UN conventions on women's human rights. Such criticisms may be misdirected, since China's prostitution controls neither explicitly criminalise the prostitution transaction nor focus primarily on the female prostitute subject. Instead, as the project will demonstrate, China's prostitution controls are directed at a diverse range of bodies and social spaces for purposes that undermine the assumptions informing extant international responses.''
Keywords: China Governmentality Feminist theory Prostitution Women
FOR Codes: Other Language and Culture, Social Theory, Other Policy and Political Science, Communication across languages and cultures, Government and politics not elsewhere classified, International relations not elsewhere classified, Communication Across Languages and Culture, Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified, Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified, Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified, Other human society not elsewhere classified