...Brian James Baer Duke University Press 2002 RUSSIAN GAYS/WESTERN GAZE Mapping (Homo)Sexual Desire in Post-Soviet Russia Brian James Baer When the first English edition of Ivan Bloch’s Sexual Life in England, Past and Present appeared in 1938, the publisher seemed to feel obliged...

...Mitra Rastegar Through an analysis of Western lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activist responses to the executions of two youths in Iran in 2005, this article considers why an interpretation of the executions as a case of antigay persecution became predominant despite reasons...

...Dredge Byung'chu Käng In the Western popular imagination, Bangkok is a “gay paradise,” a city that affords cheap and easy access to exotic “boys.” This reputation for sex tourism as well as a local cultural tolerance for homosexuality and transgenderism is a common representation of queer Bangkok...

... with nightmares of savage Maya men. This essay argues that by analyzing the voyeurism and fantasies of Landa and Gibson, we can come to terms with the position of Maya masculinity in modern Western imaginations. Moreover, by working to understand Landa’s and Gibson’s investments in perverse Maya men, we can think...

...Allegro Wang In a Western post – Cold War era, the pharmaceutical industry, state, and capitalism have merged to regulate gender and sexual normativity. According to Paul Preciado in Testo Junkie , the illicit and self‐regulated use of hormones destabilizes gender and sexual binaries, a methodology...

...Duygu Ula Focusing on photographs by Nilbar Güreş, a visual and performance artist, this article analyzes how her images deconstruct and reimagine the various identities of the Turkish nation and Western discourses of homosexuality at once. By depicting seemingly conventional women in traditional...

... than the witch because of his connections with Western modernity not only in the minds of Sierra Leoneans but also in global pro‐queer discourse. This insight places discourses about homosexuality more generally, whether positive or negative, in a field of contestation over who gets to speak for Sierra...

... counterpublics that they produced were uncannily facilitated by mediumship social networks. Through these practices of monarchic veneration, sarimbavy medium-activists implicitly challenged Western expectations that queer social movements must emerge through the subversion of social norms and secular, liberal...

... of analytical agendas: casting light on the importance of language and its discursive reach in popular understandings of same-sex desire, overturning the problem of long-standing heteronormative biases in area studies, grappling with the ghost of Western concepts of gender and sexuality, and jostling...

...Joseph Allen Boone How might current theories of the queer archive, its ephemeral, idiosyncratic, and fetishized contents, and its affective relation to the past and present, need amending to accommodate non-Western contexts and their differing histories and cultural scripts of sexuality...

... expansion, the politics of mobility, and the mapping of Western colonial ideologies onto racialized conflicts—both between Israelis and Palestinian and within the Israeli community itself between Jews of Arab (Mizrahim) and European (Ashkenazim) descent. Duke University Press 2010 Moving Image Review...

... made and unmade in ethnographic research and writing. In a newly transnational queer studies, ethnography has become a source of knowledge of non-Western, local, or cross-cultural sexual practices and formations. Each of the three ethnographies under review makes an important intervention...

...Carla Freccero “Ideological Fantasies” is an argument for the continued importance of thinking Marxism and psychoanalysis together in the conjunction of “queer” and “capital.” Both, within a certain Western tradition, are preoccupied with understanding how ideology fashions subjectivities...

... of postcolonial subjects in Cape Town and Hong Kong. In a moment of intensified counterterrorism, necropolitical nationalism, and resurgent yet covert forms of empire, both works have much to say about how the lives of sexual minorities are simultaneously affected by and resist Western imperialism. Thus they also...

...Amar Wahab The stigmatization of Caribbean postcolonial nation-states in the Western imagination as exemplifying some of the most homophobic nationalisms masks a more-nuanced reading of the complexities of Caribbean modernity. As such, the hardening of homophobic nationalisms in settings...

..., and they attest to the significance of queer knowledge production within and about a loosely defined Asia. In addition, these works help trouble the centrality of “Western” culture and theory within queer studies as a whole, and — via their juxtaposition within the series — suggest the potential of intraregional...

...Evelyn Blackwood This article examines the circulation of “global queer discourse” in Indonesia to interrogate the processes by which queer knowledge is received and appropriated. While Western-oriented queer discourse articulated by international LGBT organizations promote a “modern ideal...

... multiple queer modernities and result as much from local responses to similar economic conditions as from foreign cultural influences. The alternative narrative of queer histories beyond the West presented here decouples the spread of capitalism from cultural Westernization. It highlights moments where...

... and sexuality that that reading both reflects and reproduces. Reading Hemingway's fiction with attention to the sexual dimension that has so often circulated in criticism of him, the essay shows modern Western culture's preoccupation with celebrating heterosexuality in the form of its praise of simplicity...

... War,” the present article examines the way in which queer scholarship can productively engage with non-Western bodies and sexualities. Considering sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, it draws on the work of Puar, Achille Mbembe, and others to argue that the post-9/11 wars represent a major context...