📕书籍信息
- 书名:Dealing in Desire
- 作者:Kimberly Kay Hoang
- 豆瓣评分:⭐9.3
- 出版社:University of California Press
- isbn:9780520275577
- 出版日期:2015-2-11
- 价格:USD 29.95
- 豆瓣:Dealing in Desire
🌵内容简介
【编辑推荐】:
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budge…
📣听过的人说…
- 😗: Incredibly insightful! Hoang picked the sex industry as the microcosm of the political economy of Vietnam. The theoretical depth and empirical rigour of her research was impressive!
- 🤖: 作为non-fiction读是很可读的 但是得了那么多奖的学术书籍 其实是比较糟糕的 喜欢用一些复杂的她没有理解的短语(global-economic upward mobility, a world order where the west dominates global financescapes) 理论也有一些有趣的概念(Asian ascendancy and Western decli…
- 🤖: 社会科学中经常可以见到两类学者,一种喜欢谈论应该怎么样,一种喜欢讨论现在是什么样的。一般来说,后一种人往往意识不到向自己的圈内人或者其他受众展示自己的田野观察是鲜有意义的。因为在他们的圈子里,往往也都是跟他们一样,喜欢以局外人视角谈论社会景观,而没什么自己的想法的人。一群从来没有经历过那种生活方式,也不知道该怎么改变现状的学者和读者,聚在一起激烈地讨论一群压根不关心学界怎么想的人,让人感觉分外的滑…
📑书籍章节
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Dealing in Desire 1
- 1 Sex Work in HCMC, 1867–Present 26
- 2 The Contemporary Sex Industry 39
- 3 New Hierarchies of Global Men 53
- 4 Entrepreneurial Mommies 78
- 5 Autonomy and Consent in Sex Work 104
- 6 Constructing Desirable Bodies 126
- 7 Sex Workers’ Economic Trajectories 154
- Conclusion: Faltering Ascent 173
- Appendix: The Empirical Puzzle and
- the Embodied Cost of Ethnography 181
- Notes 197
- Bibliography 209
- Index 223
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