Changing behaviours and continuing silence: Sex in the post-immigration lives of mainland Chinese immigrants in Canada

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-100

  Zhou, Yanqiu Rachel ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; mainland Chinese immigrants; sex and sexuality; silence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL CHANGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859115396     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2011.626454     Document Type: Article

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