By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. This essay provides a global overview of prostitution from the early modern period to the present. The focus on female prostitution in urban settings is justified by the fact that commercial sex has nearly always been a city phenomenon involving women servicing men.
Although the distinction between "pre-modern" and "modern" prostitution is not necessarily sharp, the profound political, military and socioeconomic changes from ca. Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from to the s. Situated within a comparative framework of local developments, the book takes up themes such as labour relations, coercion, agency, gender, and living and working conditions.
Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication. What emotions and affects are at work when they sing a duet in both Mandarin and Minnanese with each other to express their feelings?
Simultaneous with the campaign for legislative reform in post-martial law Taiwan is the emergence of cross-strait migration after the enactment of laws permitting cross-strait exchange.
This dissertation investigates questions of desire, gendered subjectivity, and modernity in the context of cross-strait relations between Taiwan and mainland China.
