Mankekar / Schein Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9132-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mankekar, Purnima

Schein, Louisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Mediations and Transmediations: Erotics, Sociality, and "Asia" / Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein 1

1. Wayward Erotics: Mediating Queer Diasporic Return / Martin F. Manalansan IV 33

2. For Your Reading Pleasure: Self-Health (Ziwo Baojian) Information in Beijing in the 1990s / Judith Farquhar 53

3. Zines and Zones of Desire: Mass-Mediated Love, National Romance, and Sexual Citizenship in Gay Indonesia / Tom Boellstorff 75

4. Correspondence Marriages, Imagined Virtual Communities, and Countererotics on the Internet / Nicole Constable 111

5. Flows between the Media and the Clinic: Desiring Production and Social Production in Urban Beijing / Everett Yuehong Zhang 139

6. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century India / Purnima Mankekar 173

7. Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Video / Louisa Schein 203

8. Another Kind of Love? Debating Homosexuality and Same-Sex Intimacy through Taiwanese and Chinese Film Reception / Sara L. Friedman 233

9. Born under Western Eyes: The Politics and Erotics of the Documentary Gaze in Born into Brothels / Heather Dell 267

10. American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies / Anne Allison 297

References 323

Contributors 357

Index 359

Über Autor(innen)

Purnima Mankekar is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India, also published by Duke University Press.Louisa Schein is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China’s Cultural Politics, also published by Duke University Press.