Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience

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Russell Leong
Routledge, Jun 17, 2014 - Social Science - 262 pages
Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the "model minority" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US.

Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature; and Asian American male homosexuality and AIDS. The relationship of the gay and lesbian experience to Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies is also explored.
 

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Home Bodies and the Body Politic
1
Part I Home Bodies
19
Part II The Body Politic
81
Part III Figuring Desire
129
Part IV Bloodlines
199
Part V A Tongue in Your Ear
219
Contributors
251

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Russell Leong is the editor of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center's Amerasia Journal. He edited Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific Media Arts (1991), and is the author of The Country of Dreams and Dust (1993), recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literature Award.

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