CAS350H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Software Relicensing, Breast Binding, Foot Binding
Document Summary
Chapter is on state regulation of sexualities and the formation of gendered subjectivities in postwar. Policed culture of sex under regulatory regime of virtuous custom". Virtuous custom" greatly expanded since 1990s due to rise of anti-prostitution state. Analysis of journalisstic discourse on sex between 1950s and 1980s. Sustained by now defunct police offence law feminism. Modeled on pre war japanese police offence law. Unconstitutionally sustained by kmt government until 1991 when it was replaced by the. Enabled state to actively intervene in the course of social formations pivotal role in nation-buidling in postwar taiwan. Conferred on the police the prerogative to discipline and punish deviant individuals. Police also had power to impose harsher punishment on habitual offenders. Penalties: confiscation, forced labor, admonition, detention of up to fourteen days . Included getting rid of backward social practises like foot binding and breast binding not feeding. Administering the leisure businesses associated with fostering sexual immortality in general and prostitution in particular.
