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.

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Information

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Year

2010

ISBN

9780252091810

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Sociology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1. Embodied Masculinities of Male-Male Desire: The Homo Magazines and White-Collar Manliness in Early 1970s Japan
2. Lilies of the Margin: Beautiful Boys and Queer Female Identities in Japan
3. Grrrl-queens: Onē-kotoba and the Negotiation of Heterosexist Gender Language Norms and Lesbo(homo)phobic Stereotypes in Japanese
4. Politics and Islam: Factors Determining Identity and the Status of Male-to-Female Transsexuals in Malaysia
5. Recognition through Mis-recognition: Masculine Women in Hong Kong
6. Being a Young Tomboy in Hong Kong: The Life and Identity Construction of Lesbian Schoolgirls
7. The Romance of the Queer: The Sexual and Gender Norms of Tom and Dee in Thailand
8. Bad-Assed Honeys with a Difference: South Auckland Fa’afafine Talk about Identity
9. Villa, Montano, Perez: Postcoloniality and Gay Liberation in the Philippines
10. Bading na Bading: Evolving Identities in Philippine Cinema
11. Representation, Politics, Ethics: Rethinking Homosexuality in Contemporary Korean Cinema and Discourses
12. Lesbianism and Taiwanese Localism in The Silent Thrush
13. How to Be Queer in Taiwan: Translation, Appropriation, and the Construction of a Queer Identity in Taiwan
14. King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia
Contributors
Index