...Charlene E. Makley 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 On the Edge of Respectability: Sexual Politics in China’s Tibet Charlene E. Makley A Picnic On a rainy July day in 1995, my husband and I joined a Tibetan village family we knew in the famous...

...Hyunah Yang Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Finding the “Map of Memory”: Testimony of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Survivors Hyunah Yang It is strange that there is nobody here in Japan who came out as a user of the Japa...

... and that such a repudiation is complicit with the dominant moral-sexual order upheld by Taiwan's state culture. In querying this limiting continuity, this artcile demonstrates in particular that the novel represents a particular “state affect” of gendered sexual shame linked to prostitution, a shame that later came...

...Chin Sung Chung Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 The Origin and Development of the Military Sexual Slavery Problem in Imperial Japan Chin Sung Chung Introduction It has been nearly fifty years since the end of the Second World War...

... this debate may be familiar within contemporary feminist discourses, communist feminisms that stretched across the Cold War divide were no less conflicted about what to do with sex difference, most explicitly represented by sexual violence and biological motherhood. Even as communist states implemented top...

...Reuben Ramas Cañete The understanding of male sexual labor commodification in Philippine realist film has often been linked exclusively to economic and political determinations associated with authoritarianism and migrant labor from the 1980s to the 1990s. Little discussion has been focused...

...Rosalind C. Morris Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Three Sexes and Four Sexualities: Redressing the Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Thailand Rosalind C. Morris All archetypes are spurious but some...

...Traise Yamamoto Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 “As Natural as the Partnership of Sun and Moon”: The Logic of Sexualized Metonymy in Pictures from the Water Trade and The Lady and the Monk Traise Yamamoto “Japanese women relate to sex somewhat...

...Xiaoqun Xu Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 The Discourse on Love, Marriage, and Sexuality in Post-Mao China: A Reading of the Journalistic Literature on Women Xiaoqun Xu Since the early 1980s a new genre of writing, called journalistic literature...

... standard. To discuss sexual images such as Araki's work in a dualist perspective, Japan versus the West, only leads to exoticization of the cultural other. But their orientalist bias does not interrupt the photographer's project. Instead, any kind of Western attention is welcomed as proof...

...Gayatri Gopinath Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion Gayatri Gopinath In Funny Boy, Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel in six stories, the upper...

...Jiemin Bao Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Same Bed, Different Dreams: Intersections of Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality among Middle- and Upper-class Chinese Immigrants in Bangkok Jiemin Bao When Guoyi,’ a Chinese immigrant woman in Bangkok...

... workers, who somehow find themselves more mobile in the global economic system. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Feudal Desires: Sexualizing Agriculture in the Philippine Film Industry Alvin Yapan Introduction At the turn of the twenty-­first century, a number...

...Jin-kyung Lee In reconsidering South Korean military involvement in the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1973, this essay focuses on the multivalent relationship between military labor and masculine sexuality in the overlapping contexts of class stratification, nationalist economic development under...

... in The Murmuring , which exceeds or is independent of the film's dialogue and narration, spoken to defy and subvert the tyranny of the social norms that regulate gender and sexuality. Although shot when the research on comfort women was inchoate, the critical power of The Murmuring is still unsurpassed because...

... imperative, a series of new laws, litigation, and regulations has been put into place that criminalizes practically all sex-related publications and video images, more specifically any sex-related information, contact, and even inquiries on the Internet. How are we to understand such sexual mass hysteria...

...Nobue Suzuki Although “vaginal commodities”—feminized and sexualized bodies in the economic system—are found everywhere on the globe today, this article focuses on the ways in which such sexualized images of the Filipino “ Japayuki ” entertainers working in Japan have been produced and consumed...

... the artist sketches out a feminist anatomy of desire in an idiom of negativity. In close connection, it examines the artist's explicit pedagogic intent to initiate public discussions on femininity and sexuality in Thailand. In her video performances, the artist reads passages from Thai classical literature...

... observation is that beautification, sexual styling, and spiritual/cultural cultivation are consistently linked in narratives of “becoming-woman” in a newly successful genre of aspirational literature, which we are calling “manuals of elite civility.” We argue that these narratives may be understood...

...Amie Parry; Liu Jen-peng Both avant-garde and popular, Lucifer Hung's writing has attracted a significant amount of critical attention in Chinese academic circles for its explicit sexual and violent content. This article identifies an ethical conundrum faced by critics who want to support Hung's...