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1 online resource (193 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary Asia Series |
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Routledge contemporary Asia series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Texts; 1 Other pleasures?: anal sex and medical discourse in premodern China; 2 Censured sexual acts and early medieval society in India; 3 Same-sex relations and transgender identities in Islamic Southeast Asia from the fifteenth century; PART II People; 4 Strange bedfellows: male homoeroticism and politics in Thai history; 5 The shogun's lover's would-be Swedish boyfriend: Inoue Masashige, Tokugawa Iemitsu and Olof Eriksson Willman; PART III Crimes and sins |
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6 Sodomy in seventeenth-century Manila: the luck of a mandarin from Taiwan7 Male-male sex, bestiality and incest in the early-modern Indonesian Archipelago: perceptions and penalties; Index |
| Summary |
Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western travel narratives, missionary accounts, and ethnographies. But what constituted indigenous sexual morality, and how was this influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity over ti |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- Asia -- History
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Sex -- Asia -- History
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
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SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
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Sex
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Sex customs
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Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reyes, Raquel A. G.
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Clarence-Smith, W. G., 1948-
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| ISBN |
9781136297229 |
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1136297227 |
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9780203116005 |
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0203116003 |
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