Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia

Hoching Jiang

doi:10.20897/femenc.201811

Abstract

Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia

Highlights

As the book title, Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia, suggests, this edited volume provides a guide to gender and sexuality studies in Asia and arguments that centre sexuality in Asian cultural politics
Across the twelve chapters, the authors address various methodological and theoretical issues that extend beyond Asia as a regional case and sex/gender as a sole analytical dimension. Such a volume would benefit students and scholars who are already interested in Asia, political economy, and sex and gender studies, and those who primarily study social changes in first-world countries
Ahmed Afzal argues against a universal assumption of premodern or Western gay identity in understanding male-male sexual relationships in Pakistan. He says that the selfhood and ‘homosociality’ of these relationships should be understood in the context of localised adulthood, gender roles, familial expectations, and religious beliefs

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Introduction

Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia, suggests, this edited volume provides a guide to gender and sexuality studies in Asia and arguments that centre sexuality in Asian cultural politics. Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia The book presents a collective effort to ethnographically examine recent changes within the political economy in Asia through the lenses of gender and sexuality.

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