Media, erotics, and transnational Asia / / Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein, eds.

This collection of essays examines how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulate across Asia and its diasporas, both reflecting and shaping the social practices of producers and consumers.

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (374 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Wayward erotics : mediating queer diasporic return / Martin F. Manalansan
  • For your reading pleasure : self-health ("ziwo baojian") information in 1990s Beijing / Judith Farquhar
  • Zines and zones of desire : mass-mediated love, national romance, and sexual citizenship in gay Indonesia / Tom Boellstorf
  • Correspondence marriages, imagined virtual communities, and counter-erotics on the Internet / Nicole Constable
  • Flows between the media and the clinic : desiring production and social production in urban Beijing / Everett Yuehong Zhang
  • Dangerous desires : television and erotics in late twentieth-century India / Purnima Mankekar
  • Homeland beauty : transnational longing and Hmong American video / Louisa Schein
  • Another kind of love? Debating homosexuality and same-sex intimacy through Taiwanese and Chinese film reception / Sara L. Friedman
  • Born under Western eyes : the politics and erotics of the documentary gaze in Born into brothels / Heather Dell
  • American geishas and Oriental/ist fantasies / Anne Allison.