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Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese CompaniesSex as Work

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Sex as Work [This chapter considers the experiences of women and men working in the sales departments of a range of domestically oriented Chinese companies. Through an examination of the way in which Chinese businesses utilize the facilities offered by the entertainment and leisure sector to cultivate relationships with clients, I reveal the sexist and sexual content of such interactions and indicate that the selling of women’s sexuality is institutionally and deliberately deployed by management. Because the restrictions on women’s autonomy in sexual relations are still strong, and women’s sexuality is highly moralized, women who had frequent encounters with male clients often found themselves walking a fine line between respectability and disreputability.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese CompaniesSex as Work

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-137-50574-3
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89 –106
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0_6
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Abstract

[This chapter considers the experiences of women and men working in the sales departments of a range of domestically oriented Chinese companies. Through an examination of the way in which Chinese businesses utilize the facilities offered by the entertainment and leisure sector to cultivate relationships with clients, I reveal the sexist and sexual content of such interactions and indicate that the selling of women’s sexuality is institutionally and deliberately deployed by management. Because the restrictions on women’s autonomy in sexual relations are still strong, and women’s sexuality is highly moralized, women who had frequent encounters with male clients often found themselves walking a fine line between respectability and disreputability.]

Published: Nov 9, 2016

Keywords: Sexual Harassment; Sales Manager; Male Client; Chinese Business; Sales Department

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