Sex as Work

Liu Jieyu
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Liu Jieyu: SOAS University of London

Chapter Chapter 6 in Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies, 2017, pp 89-106 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Sexual Harassment; Sales Manager; Male Client; Chinese Business; Sales Department (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0_6

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