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“Weird” Sex: Identity, Censorship, and China’s Women Sex Bloggers

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From American Idol style talent competitions to Chinese Vogue, the recent influx of digital culture in urban China has irrevocably changed the country’s social landscape. By 2000, Chinese urbanites could watch state-censored western television through online pirating, and Sex and the City became one of the most popular shows in the country signifying a growing interest in sexual politics and personal autonomy (Farrer 2007, p.5). Though restricted by the Chinese Communist Party, this new access to global culture via cyberspace promoted a dialogue about sexual rights, and due to the leveling nature of the Internet, the historic gap between political and unofficial voices began to wane (Farrer, p. 5). Central to the arguments in this article are Mu Zimei, Furong Jiejie, and Mu Mu, three Chinese sex bloggers who use their bodies as media to communicate a confrontation with and subversion of social control.[1] These women, perhaps the three most well-known sex bloggers to emerge on the Chinese Internet in terms of website hits and international media attention, use a manufactured combination of first-person texts and enigmatic self-portraits to strategically complicate normative notions of female sexuality.

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: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.,
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Women bloggers
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doi:10.7264/N32805XH
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