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AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities

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Description for AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities Paperback. 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.

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. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075070
SKU
V9780252075070
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Martin
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 ... Read more

Reviews for AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities
"Opens up new paradigms in understanding LGBTQ cultures in Asia and beyond."
Intersections "Needs to be read by everyone interested in sex and gender."
Pacific Affairs

Goodreads reviews for AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities


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