Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity inTaiwan /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Huang, Hans Tao-Ming
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Chino
Published: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, 2011
Series:Queer Asia.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bai, Xianyong, > 1937- > "Nie zi."
Gays in literature.
Queer theory > Political aspects > Taiwan.
Feminism > Political aspects > Taiwan.
Male homosexuality > Political aspects > Taiwan.
Gays > Taiwan.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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