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1 online resource (221 pages) |
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Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series |
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Routledge research on gender in Asia series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Women who love women in Singapore; Queer-ed in an Anglo-American way: the globalisation of same-sex identities; The queer Asia critique and specificities of Asian queer sexualities; The arsenal of Asian 'lesbian' research, and the absence of Singapore; Locating female non-normative sexualities in Singapore's modernity; Subjects in question, central provocations and theoretical interventions; Road map; 2 Conceptual underpinnings of global queering; SECTION ONE; A genealogy of the global gay? |
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Globalisation in the global gay domain, and Altman's antimonySpecifying the 'other side': non-Western sexualities in the global gay domain; Theoretical problematic and persistent logics: an elementary framework; Searching for historical tradition and specific local cultural experience; SECTION TWO; Towards a postcolonial LGQ studies; The postcolonial orientation of queer Asian scholarships; Re-theorising hybridisation; Turning to 'transnationality'; Coda; 3 Postcolonial Singapore: state, nationalism and sexuality; Sexuality, state and nationalism in a postcolonial world |
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Setting the conceptual context: 'state', 'nationalism' and 'sexuality'Specifying Singapore's postcolonial historical context; State policing, portrayals and pronouncements of homosexuality in Singapore; 4 Sexual politics in Singapore: sodomy law and lesbian resistance; A parliamentary petition against Section 377A; A leadership tussle over lesbianism; Coda; 5 Transnational politics of local queer activism and lesbian activists; Fostering queer consciousness in fraught discursive tropes; Queering Singapore: local to transnational spaces for lesbian and gay organising; Pink Dot |
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The reverse implantation of Pink DotReflections on the local queer movement; Early lesbian agency in Singapore; Transnational lesbian activism; Politics of 'coming out' and 'gaining visibility'; Political significance of hybridising, transnational sexualities; 6 'Modern' lesbian lives in postcolonial Singapore; Prelude; Analysing Singaporean lesbian women's experiences; Agency, subjects and structure; Queer? No way! I am not weird: labels and gendered lesbian lives; 'Coming out' in the city-state; A queer turn |
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7 Recollections, remarks and re-making the relations: a postcolonial politics of differencePoststructuralism, state-sexuality relations and local resistance; Final notes; Methodological appendix; References; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317519157 |
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1317519159 |
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