Queer politics and sexual modernity in Taiwan / Hans Tao-Ming Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Hans Tao-Ming.

Series:

Queer Asia

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Pai, Hsien-yung, 1937- "Nie zi".

Pai, Hsien-yung.

Gay people--Taiwan.

Gay people.

Gay people in literature.

Queer theory--Political aspects--Taiwan.

Queer theory.

Male homosexuality--Political aspects--Taiwan.

Male homosexuality.

Feminism--Political aspects--Taiwan.

Feminism.

Feminism--Political aspects.

Taiwan.

Physical Description:

viii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], [2011]

Language Note:

In English, with pasages translated from Chinese.

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 recognised 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 construction of male homosexuality as a term of social exclusion is historically linked to the state's banning of prostitution, further delineating a moral-sexual order that has come to be buttressed by the hegemonic rise of anti-prostitution state feminism, since the 1990s. In exploring the imbrications of male homosexuality, prostitution and feminism in Taiwanese national culture, Huang boldly ventures a politics of sexual dissidence that contests state-inspired heteronormativity. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Mental Hygiene and the Regime of Sexuality: The Case of The Man Who Escapes Marriage 31

2 Prostitution, Perversion and AIDS: The Secrets of the 'Glass Clique' 53

3 State Power, Prostitution and Sexual Order: Towards a Genealogical Critique of 'Virtuous Custom' 83

4 From Glass Clique to Tongzhi Nation: Crystal Boys, Identity Formation and Politics of Sexual Shame 113

5 Modernising Gender, Civilising Sex: State Feminism and Perverse Imagination 143

6 Mourning the Monogamous Ideal: Anti-Prostitution Feminism, Conjugal Sentimentality and the Formation of Melancholic Sexual Modernity 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-269) and index.

ISBN:

9789888083077

9888083074

9789888083084

9888083082

OCLC:

751792538