Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
Series |
Queer Asia
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Queer Asia.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Discourses of home, gender and sexuality -- Gender and sexuality in the migrant community -- Negotiating social positions : religion, class and race -- Imaginings of home. |
Summary |
Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex relationship, this book provides an ethnographic perspective by addressing their Sunday activities and considering how migration policies and the practices of Hong Kong people unintentionally produce alternative sexuality. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Foreign workers, Indonesian.
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Foreign workers, Indonesian. |
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Foreign workers, Asian -- Social life and customs.
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Foreign workers, Asian. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Sexual minority women -- Asia.
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Sexual minority women. |
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Asia. |
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Sexual minority women -- China -- Hong Kong.
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China -- Hong Kong. |
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Lesbian couples -- Asia.
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Lesbian couples. |
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Lesbian couples.
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Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Lesbian couples. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Lai, Francisca Yuenki. Maid to queer. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2020] 9789888528332 (OCoLC)1222807899 |
ISBN |
9789888268115 (electronic book) |
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9888268112 (electronic book) |
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9789888528332 (hardback) |
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9888528335 (hardback) |
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