| Description |
1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Home Bodies and the Body Politic; Part I Home Bodies; 1 Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America; 2 Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons; 3 Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City; 4 Breaking through the Chrysalis: Hanh Thi Pham; 5 Preserving the Paradox: Stories from a Gay-Loh; Part II The Body Politic |
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6 Living in Asian America: An Asian American Lesbian's Address before the Washington Monument (1979)7 Strategies for Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Spaces; 8 In Our Own Way: A Roundtable Discussion; 9 From the 1970s to the 1990s: Perspective of a Gay Filipino American Activist; 10 Same-Sex Sexuality in Pacific Literature; 11 Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet; Part III Figuring Desire; 12 In the Shadows of a Diva: Committing Homosexuality in David Henry Hwang's; 13 Notes on Queer 'N' Asian Virtual Sex |
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14 Toward a Struggle against Invisibility: Love between Women in Thailand15 Gregg Araki and the Queer New Wave; 16 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn; Part IV Bloodlines; 17 Communion: A Collaboration on AIDS; Part V A Tongue in Your Ear; 18 My Grandmother's Third Eye; 19 Bak Sze, White Snake; 20 Tita Aida (for Jorge F. Casaclang); 21 River Deep: & All Those Pretty Women; 22 Grandma's Tales; 23 Queer Pilipino Rebolusiyon: with ms. nikki giovanni to thank for; 24 Fascination, Gravity, and a Deeply Done Kiss; 25 Aloes: from The Country of Dreams and Dust; Contributors |
| Summary |
Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the ""model minority"" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US. Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature; and Asian American male homosexuality and AIDS. The relationsh |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Asian American gay people
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Asian American gays
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134717781 |
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1134717784 |
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9780203760512 |
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0203760514 |
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