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Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia (Comparative Feminist Studies) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Saskia E. Wieringa, Evelyn Blackwood, Abha Bhaiya
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 296
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1403977682
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7663095
EAN: 9781403977687
ASIN: 1403977682
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Winner of the 2007 Ruth Benedict Award! A unique collection of writings by both academic and activist scholars on women’s same-sex sexualities and female masculinities in a globalizing Asia. Through richly detailed studies, contributors explore the emergence of contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships and communities throughout Asia and their location within the context of nationalist struggles, religious fundamentalism, state gender regimes, and global queer movements.
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work toward expanding our often thin conceptions of sexuality, subversion, dominance and gender September 11, 2007
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The chapters in this book examine multiple resistances to particular sexual and gendered hegemonies in Asian contexts. While denying the existence of a single "Asian" identity or sexuality, the authors here explore the ways in which women's non-heterosexualities have developed from within particular Asian cultures and communities and not as a simple result of globalization.
The editors of this book explicitly recognize a temptation to subsume Asian women's sexual discourses under a homogenizing global discourse on women's sexuality and queer theory. The coincidence of increasing visibility surrounding Asian women's sexual practices and communities critical of heterosexism with trends toward globalization could lead some sexual theorists to believe that women's same sex practices are contingent upon the globalizing trend and can therefore be understood as culturally varying manifestations of the same sexual identity. The editors and authors here trouble this notion of universality in sexual or gendered identity, insisting instead that, though there is plenty of room for similarity and overlap, sexual and gendered identities are multiple and are (at least partially) culturally constituted.
Thus, though western/northern readers will be familiar with the impulse to resist heterosexual hegemony, the meanings for this impulse/desire and the shape and meaning of the resistance are quite different. We may use the same words to describe same-sex practices in New York and New Delhi, but the similarity in vocabulary is not indicative of deep understanding. In fact, such vocabulary might preclude such an understanding if it limits our recognition of differences.
Although each chapter identifies a particular, socially specific space of resistance to sexual hegemony, the authors recognize the abstract theoretical dimension to their narratives and critiques and are thus able to dialogically engage dominant sexual discourses from this space of similarity and difference. At higher levels of generality, the chapters here engage such familiar problems as the politics of (in)visibility and spaces of constructed ignorance and silence; they critique the primacy of linearity and the existence of a "real" core self. However, by insisting that the reader - and dominant cultural institutions generally - resist the homogenizing impulse, the authors here point toward the multiplicity of meanings and impact within the anti-hegemonic practices they describe. More importantly, by continually emphasizing the difference cultural specificity introduces to similarly called terms and practices, the authors and chapters here work toward expanding our often thin conceptions of sexuality, subversion, dominance and gender.
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