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Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity inTaiwan /

This book analyses the critical reception of Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys, one of Taiwan's first recognized gay novels, and one which has played an important role in redefining sexual modernity and linking this to ongoing cultural dialogues on state building. It examines the deployment of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huang, Hans Tao-Ming
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, 2011
Colección:Queer Asia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Mental hygiene and the regime of sexuality : the case of the man who escapes marriage
  • 2. Prostitution, perversion and AIDS : the secrets of the "glass clique"
  • 3. State power, prostitution and sexual order : towards a genealogical critique of "virtuous custom"
  • 4. From glass clique to Tongzhi Nation : crystal boys, identity formation and politics of sexual shame
  • 5. Modernising gender, civilising sex : state feminism and perverse imagination
  • 6. Mourning the monogamous ideal : anti-prostitution feminism, conjugal sentimentality and the formation of melancholic sexual modernity
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary of special names and terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index.