Subjectivity, Hygiene, and STI Prevention: A Normalization Paradox in the Cleanliness Practices of Female Sex Workers in Post-Socialist China

This article illuminates the principal mechanisms that increase the risk of STIs for female sex workers in China. It draws primarily on my 26 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2006—2009) in red-light district neighborhoods in Haikou that have become centers of internal migration in post-reform south...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Medical anthropology quarterly 2013-09, Vol.27 (3), p.348-367
1. Verfasser:	Yu, Yeon Jung
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropology, Medical China Chinese Ethnography Female Females Fieldwork Health Humans Hygiene Internal migration Medical anthropology Medical Decision Making migrants Neighborhoods Normal Peoples Republic of China Post-communist societies post-socialist China Postcommunist Societies Prevention Prostitution Public Health Risk assessment Risk Factors Sex industry sex work Sex workers Sex Workers - psychology Sexual health Sexually transmitted diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases - prevention & control Social networks Socialism STD STIs Subjectivity Transients and Migrants Unsafe Sex - prevention & control Unsafe Sex - psychology Women Women - psychology Workers
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