AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities

Martin

ISBN 10: 0252075072 / ISBN 13: 9780252075070

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2008

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Examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. This book underscores the mutual transformation of gender and sexuality in both Asian Pacific and Western cultures. Editor(s): Martin, Fran; Jackson, Professor Peter; McLelland, Mark. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 photographs. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466. . 2008. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252075072
• ISBN 13: 9780252075070
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This interdisciplinary collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. The diverse studies in AsiaPacifiQueer demonstrate convincingly that in the realm of sexualities, globalization results in creative and cultural admixture rather than a unilateral imposition of the western values and forms of sexual culture. These essays range across the Pacific Rim and encompass a variety of forms of social, cultural, and personal expression, examining sexuality through music, cinema, the media, shifts in popular rhetoric, comics and magazines, and historical studies. By investigating complex processes of localization, interregional borrowing, and hybridization, the contributors underscore the mutual transformation of gender and sexuality in both Asian Pacific and Western cultures.

Contributors are Ronald Baytan, J. Neil C. Garcia, Kam Yip Lo Lucetta, Song Hwee Lim, J. Darren Mackintosh, Claire Maree, Jin-Hyung Park, Teri Silvio, Megan Sinnott, Yik Koon Teh, Carmen Ka Man Tong, James Welker, Heather Worth, and Audrey Yue.

About the Author

Fran Martin, University of Melbourne, is the author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture.Peter A. Jackson, Australian National University, is the author of Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand.  Mark McLelland, University of Wollongong, Australia, is the author of Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age. Audrey Yue, University of Melbourne, is coeditor of Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia.