Embodying Asian/American Sexualities

Gina Masequesmay, Sean Metzger

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216281986
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Social Philosophy

This book is conceived as a reader for use in American studies, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies, performance studies, and queer studies. It also contains new scholarship on Asian/American sexualities that would be useful for faculty and students. In particular, this volume highlights materials that receive little academic attention such as works on Southeast Asian migrants, mixed race cultural production, and Asian/American pornography. As an interdisciplinary anthology, this collection weaves together various forms of 'knowledge'_autobiographical accounts, humanistic research, community-based work, and artistic expression. Responsive to the imbrication of knowledge and power, the authors aspire to present a diverse sample of discourses that construct Asian/American bodies. They maintain that the body serves as the primary interface between the individual and the social, yet, as Elizabeth Grosz noted over a decade ago, feminist theory, and gender and sexuality studies more generally, 'has tended, with some notable exceptions, to remain uninterested in or unconvinced about the relevance of refocusing on bodies in accounts of subjectivity.' This volume attempts to address this concern.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Embodying Asian/American Sexualities
• Chapter 1. The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar
• Chapter 2. Pornography and Its Dis/Contents
• Chapter 3. The One that She Wants: Margaret Cho, Mediatization, and Autobiographical Performance
• Chapter 4. Novell-aah!: A Short Play
• Chapter 5. And the Crow Cries Before He Dies
• Chapter 6. Queer Theory and Anti-Racism Education
• Chapter 7. The Anxiety over Borders
• Chapter 8. An Interview with Pauline Park
• Chapter 9. Public Agendas and Private Struggles
• Chapter 10. Family, Citizenship, and Selfhood in Luong Ung’s First They Killed My Father
• Chapter 11. Homosexuality and Korean Immigrant Protestant Churches
• Chapter 12. Finding Fellatio
• Chapter 13. Ghosts
• Index
• About the Contributors