Sara Friedman is a Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Her researches has examined the connections between large-scale political processes and intimate life, with particular attention to the place of state power and citizenship in gender identities, intimate relationships, and bodily practices of dress, labor, and sexuality. Her researches also emerge from her experiences living and working in China and Taiwan in the late 1980s.

 

Selected Publications:

Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern China (Harvard UP 2006)

Exceptional States: Chinese Immigrants and Taiwanese Sovereignty (University of California Press, 2015)

Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China (Stanford, 2014) Co-editor