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A View from the Bottom - Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation by Tan Hoang Nguyen
$55.00 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meani ...Show more
Mobile Subjects - Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment by Aren Z. Aizura
$49.95 AUD
Category: Trans, Intersex, Gender Diverse & Gender Non-Binary | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. A ...Show more
Queer Korea by Todd A. Henry (Editor)
$46.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, "queer" Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East ...Show more
Queer in Translation - Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam by Evren Savci
$44.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
In Queer in Translation, Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate how sexual politics have unfolded under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP government. Under the AKP's neoliberal Islamic regime, Savcı shows, there has been a stark sh ...Show more
The Sense of Brown by José Esteban Muñoz; Joshua Chambers-Letson (Editor); Tavia Nyong'o (Editor)
$49.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
The Sense of Brown is Jos Esteban Mu oz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Mu oz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho and Nilo Cruz, artists Nao Bustamante, Isaac Julien, ...Show more
Wild Things - The Disorder of Desire by Jack Halberstam
$44.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to ...Show more
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