Transgressive Sex Tu Wei-ming

Transgressive Sex Tu Wei-mingSex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays

the book traces the rise of the modern paradigm of compulsory heterosexuality

Many chapters are devoted to women who played a role in the transmission of knowledge

The work also analyses marriage

The promises are those made by Englishmen to marry their Macao mistresses

particularly the concept of the Other

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discussion and project prompts

and argues that imperfect transmission of cultural practices associated with cassava cultivation led initially to maladaptive mismatches that necessitated the partial re-invention of cassava cultivation in the crop’s diasporic populations

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and a strange lack of confidence

examples of new item types in all chapters

World Weavers represents one small but significant step toward achieving such knowledge