TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kam,Lucetta Yip Lo
TI  - Shanghai lalas: female Tongzhi communities and politics in urban China 
T2  - Queer Asia
SN  - 9789882208452
AV  - HN49.C6 Y57 2013eb
U1  - 307.14 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Hong Kong
PB  - Hong Kong University Press
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - China
KW  - Shanghai
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Bisexual women
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Homophobia
KW  - Communities
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Lesbiennes
KW  - Chine
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Bisexuelles
KW  - Transgenres
KW  - Communauté
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - City Planning & Urban Development
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index; Introduction : Reconnecting Selves and Communities -- Lala Communities in the Shaping -- Public Discussions -- Private Dilemma -- Negotiating the Public and the Private -- A Smile on the Surface : The Politics of Public Correctness -- Conclusion : Seeing Diversity Among Us -- Profiles of Key Informants
N2  - This is an ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. The volume concentrates on lalas' everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women's active and legitimate sexual agency
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