... of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep hopes for what law will offer but simultaneously doubt that legal reforms will guarantee the rights...

... as illegitimate. In their analysis of lesbian co-mother families in Taiwan, Friedman and Chen show how co-mothers combine biogenetic and legal-administrative strategies, many of which creatively adapt existing legal instruments, to create the appearance of a legally sustainable family unit that encompasses...

... as a result. Listening to Jiayi and the other mothers on this panel, my mind drifted to my informants Lu and Betty, co-mothers of three children conceived through Betty's marriage to a gay man. Betty, like Jiayi, lives with her husband's parents and struggles to protect her autonomy as a lesbian woman...

... Role of ‘Women’s’ NGOs in Taiwan,” in Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migra- tion, Sex Work, and Human Rights, ed. Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera, and Bandana Pattanaik (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005...

... of this transnational cos- mopolitan environment. The multiracial, polyglot clientele and staff rep- resent Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Trendy accessories like Hello Kitty purses from Japan hold business cards, and white...

... in this cos- positions 14:3  Winter 2006 680 tume. Revealingly, her fantasy requires that he also “switch” gender by dressing in her own discarded “femininity,” thus preserving the style...

...,” in Traf- ficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights, ed. Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera, and Bandana Pattanaik (Boulder, CO: Para- digm, 2005), 83 – 105. 58...

.... Edward Davis (London: Routledge, 2005), 428 – 29.   2. Exemplary works in this category include Duan Jinchuan’s The Square (Guangchang, 1994, co-­dir. with renowned Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan), No.16 Bakhor South St. (Ba kuo nan jie...

... Queer: A LesbiGay Cultural Studies Reader, ed. Donald Morton (Boul- der, CO: Westview Press, 1996): 1 – 34 and Carla Freccero’s response to Morton in chapter 2 of Queer/Early/Modern (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006). See also Judith Butler...

..., in her determination (“choice”) to march on the streets in pro- test, to confront the state in the struggle for her and her co-­workers’ rights to survival. Lijun’s is not the position of an immediately culturally representa- tive or authorized...

... Disorder (New York: Norton & Co., 2001). 10 Another contemporary analogy is the former Soviet Union. 11 James Hevia, “The Archive State and the Fear of Pollution: From the Opium Wars to Fu Manchu,” Cultural Studies 12...

... sobering, of course, but looking just a few decades back in history, we butt into the recollection that the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was pursued in the name of the Japanese folk and the Japanese homeland-at such great cost...

... critique based on scholarship has appeared. Second, the author’s opinion that the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” propagandized by Japan was once “welcomed by Southeast Asian nationalists and intellectuals as its salvation” cannot stand...

... / Our jagi is / Hanguk Jagi. Co.” Jagi means a sweetheart as well as ceramics in Korean, and Hanguk jagi is a famous Korean ceramics brand, compa- rable to Mikasa in the United States, for example. 17. In www.boim.ac.kr (accessed...

.... Courtesy of Taiwan Encyclopedia Britannica Co., Ltd. Vitiello I Homosexuality and Salvation in Late Ming Pornography 305 lets Niu Jun mount a horse and, as if flying, they reach a land over the clouds, the Kingdom of As-You-Wish...

... and cost over $18 million. To approximate the authentic Suzhou style, the Huntington Library contacted the Suzhou Garden Development Co. in China, which supplied fifty craftsmen, eleven stone artisans, and much of the material for construction...

... stores have closed down. Do Phu Nguyen, a co-­owner of Catinat Plaza in Little Saigon and a practicing attorney, remarks that “he has recently seen a sharp increase in the number of people filing for bankruptcy” (Deepa Bharath, “Little Saigon Struggles...

... backgrounds in the United States, and their co-ethnics around the world, as suggested by the concept of diaspora. In her article “Denationalization Reconsidered,” she discusses the dangers of expanding conceptualizations of Asian American...

... constitutes an attempt to reformulate within a contemporary the- oretical frame what is “alternative” in Tagore’s vision. Tagore’s discourse doesn’t dovetail neatly with, say, the contemporary thematizations of cos- mopolitanism. He wrote to William...