Where does the connected lives perspective take us? Stated compactly, the argument pivots on three main points: [7] tions over appropriate transactions by type of relation draw on prevailing social relations outside the legal arena, but also influence how people deal with each other in routine social life. 3. Hostile worlds ideas and practices emerge […]
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Heike Becker
ual and reproductive health.[17] I argue that divergent discourses on the gendered sexualities of the indigenous population were thus central to the most basic tension of empire, namely that the Otherness of colonized persons was neither inherent nor stable; their difference had to be continuously redefined and maintained. As Ann Stoler and Frederick Cooper have […]
NOT ALWAYS THE SAME
In contrast to the views of a continuing degradation of mothering, discussed in the previous section, an examination of mothering in this century shows how diverse the history of motherhood and mothering has been for different groups of women, particularly the married and the unmarried, the middle class and the working class. By concentrating on […]
What taste at sawdust?
In the menu of restaurants not to find dishes from sawdust or from straw. But the American professor believes that time when people will begin to use in food corn stalks, a peel and other low-appetizing parts of plants, not far off. Moreover, it is sure that
Connected Lives
In the broadest terms, people create connected lives by differentiating their multiple social ties from each other, marking boundaries between those different ties by means of everyday practices, sustaining those ties through joint activities (including economic activities), but constantly negotiating the exact content of important social ties. In order to understand these complicated processes, we […]
The Lens of Technology: Enacting Parenting Styles
When I began this research, I assumed naively that the hovering professional middle-class parents would opt for all the help technology could offer to help them keep track of and even spy on their children. In fact, I began this project in part because I thought that it would allow me the fun of exploring […]
Conclusions
As can be seen in the abovementioned chapters and the suggested further reading, there is now a critical mass of sexuality studies on East Asian societies by scholars based in the region itself as well as working across institutions in the Anglophone world. It is particularly remarkable how, in the last two decades, studies on […]
Material inequalities: are women and men equal now?
If you are a young woman you may feel that you have a lot of choice about what you do with your life. It probably seems like you will have more or less the same opportunities in life as your brothers and/or male friends. Young men reading this might feel that women can do whatever […]
Pornography and censorship
The three chapters in this section look at issues surrounding pornography and censorship in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. As noted above, the rapid uptake of Internet technologies in the East Asian region has led to the ease of transmission of local, regional and international media content across borders. One area in which this […]
Representing ‘African sexuality’
Following Richard Werbner and Terence Ranger’s argument that we need to look to the longue duree in the study of the dynamic complexity of postcolonial African societies (Werbner and Ranger 1996), I suggest that studies of the gendered constructions of culture and sexuality in postcolonial, and this includes postapartheid, southern Africa require an approach that […]