Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s. The book explores what it means to talk about ‘sex’ in present-day China, where sex and sexuality are more and more visible in everyday life. Elaine Jeffreys and Haiqing Yu situate China’s changing sexua...(展开全部)

Elaine Jeffreys lectures in China Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Be...(展开全部)

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, B...(展开全部)

Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy—but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese wom...(展开全部)

Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy—but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese wom...(展开全部)

琼・瑞妮丝(Dr.june Machover Reinisch)/露丝・毕思理(Ruth Beasley) 琼・瑞妮丝(Dr.june Machover Reinisch)� 自一九八二年起，即担任金赛研究所主任。她是全美性教育、性心理发展主要的研究者与教育专家之一。在得到哥伦比亚大学博士学位后，她获得了许多政府与民间的研究补助，并且在多种专业及学术期刊上发表文章。她目前是美国印地安娜大学心理与精神医学系的教授。她在报纸上撰写的专栏――《金赛性学报告》，在全国拥有好百万的读者。� 露丝・毕思理(Ruth Beasley)� 从一九七一年起即在金赛研究所工作，曾担任副主任四年，她与瑞尼丝共撰写《金赛性报告》约五年之久。