| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 275 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Queer Asia
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Queer Asia.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English, with pasages translated from Chinese. |
| Subject |
Pai, Hsien-yung, 1937- "Nie zi."
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Bai, Xianyong, 1937- |
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Gay people -- Taiwan.
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Gays. |
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Taiwan. |
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Gay people in literature.
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Queer theory -- Political aspects -- Taiwan.
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Queer theory. |
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Male homosexuality -- Political aspects -- Taiwan.
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Male homosexuality. |
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Feminism -- Political aspects -- Taiwan.
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Feminism -- Political aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Homosexuals. |
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Queer theory. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Huang, Hans Tao-Ming. Queer politics and sexual modernity in Taiwan. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2011 9789888083077 (OCoLC)751792538 |
| ISBN |
9789888053803 (electronic book) |
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9888053809 (electronic book) |
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9789888083077 |
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9888083074 |
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9789888083084 |
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9888083082 |
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