Queer Asia Decolonising And Reimagining Sexuality And Gender by Waites Matthew
$44.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writ ...Show more
Queer Beirut by Sofian Merabet
$55.00 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
Gender and sexual identity formation is an ongoing anthropological conversation in both Middle Eastern studies and urban studies, but the story of gay and lesbian identity in the Middle East is only just beginning to be told. Queer Beirut is the first ethnographic study of queer lives in the Arab Middle ...Show more
Queer Comrades - Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China by Hongwei Bao
$59.95 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Gendering Asia Ser.
This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People's Republic of China today is more than a study of 'queer China' through the lens of male homosexuality; it also examines identity, power and governmentality in contemporary China, as shaped by Chin ...Show more
Queer Korea by Todd A. Henry (Editor)
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, "queer" Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East ...Show more
Queer Muslims in Europe - Sexuality, Religion and Migration in Belgium by Wim Peumans
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Gender and Islam Ser.
Belgium was the second country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage. It has an elaborate legal system for protecting the rights of LGBT individuals in general and LGBT asylum seekers in particular. At the same time, since 2015 the country has become known as the jihadi centre of Europe' and criti ...Show more
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and imperialism, ...Show more
Queer Southeast Asia by Shawna Tang and Hendri Yulius Wijaya
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
Tang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast Asia.This groundbreaking collection presents the current state of play and longstanding LGBTQ+ debates in this often-overlooked region of Asia. The diversity ...Show more
Queer in Translation - Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam by Evren Savci
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savcı shows, there has been a stark sh ...Show more
Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society by Ruth Vanita
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected topic. The topics are wide-ranging, c ...Show more
Queering Kinship: Non-heterosexual Couples, Parents and Families in Guangdong, China by Han Tao
$185.00 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Guangdong, China, this book explores the various tactics queer people employ to have children and to form queer or ‘rainbow’ families. It unpacks people’s experiences of cultivating, or losing, kinship relations through their negotiation with biological relatives, cult ...Show more
Regimes of Desire - Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo by Thomas Baudinette
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Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
Shinjuku Ni-ch?me is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city's gay male community. Typically understood as a "safe space" where same-sex attracted men and women from across Japan's largest city can gather to find support from a relentlessly heteronormative soc ...Show more
Rice Queen Diaries: A Memoir by Daniel Gawthrop
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Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Evoking the themes of Edward Said's Orientalism, The Rice Queen Diaries is as much a personal statement about culture and otherness as it is about gay desire. Traversing three continents, these diaries are a personal reckoning, a bold coming to terms with the nuances of sexuality that has relevance for ...Show more