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Queer politics and sexual modernity in Taiwan / Hans Tao-Ming Huang.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Chinese Series: Queer AsiaPublication details: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789888053803
  • 9888053809
  • 9888083082
  • 9789888083084
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Queer politics and sexual modernity in Taiwan.DDC classification:
  • 306.7660951249 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ75.16.T28 H83 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Mental Hygiene and the Regime of Sexuality; 2. Prostitution, Perversion and AIDS; 3. State Power, Prostitution and Sexual Order; 4. From Glass Clique to Tongzhi Nation; 5. Modernising Gender, Civilising Sex; 6. Mourning the Monogamous Ideal; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary of Special Names and Terms; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Examining the deployments of gender and sexuality over the past five decades in Taiwan, this book chronicles a queer historiography that illuminates the production of sexual identities and the formation of sexual modernity. Through primary research and historical investigation, Hans Tao-Ming Huang offers a contextualised study of Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys, one of Taiwan's first recognized gay novels, as he critically engages disparate discursive fields of dominant legal and medical discourses of sex, lesbian and gay activism, as well as mainstream feminist politics. He shows that the const.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index.

In English, with pasages translated from Chinese.

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Mental Hygiene and the Regime of Sexuality; 2. Prostitution, Perversion and AIDS; 3. State Power, Prostitution and Sexual Order; 4. From Glass Clique to Tongzhi Nation; 5. Modernising Gender, Civilising Sex; 6. Mourning the Monogamous Ideal; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary of Special Names and Terms; Bibliography; Index.

Examining the deployments of gender and sexuality over the past five decades in Taiwan, this book chronicles a queer historiography that illuminates the production of sexual identities and the formation of sexual modernity. Through primary research and historical investigation, Hans Tao-Ming Huang offers a contextualised study of Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys, one of Taiwan's first recognized gay novels, as he critically engages disparate discursive fields of dominant legal and medical discourses of sex, lesbian and gay activism, as well as mainstream feminist politics. He shows that the const.

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