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張貼者:蘇淑芬/台灣聯合大學系統文化研究國際中心 推薦出版Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements Volume 22 Number 2 June 2021
 
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Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements   Volume 22   Number 2  June 2021

 

Table of contents

 

 

Editorial

Editorial introduction: androgynous bodies and cultures in Asia

Michelle H. S. HO, Eva Cheuk-Yin LI, and Lucetta Y. L. KAM                        

 

Essays

Performing androgyny: cross-dressing actresses, fandom, and queer sensibility in Hong Kong Cantonese opera

Priscilla TSE                                                             

 

From dansō to genderless: mediating queer styles and androgynous bodies in Japan

Michelle H. S. HO                                                        

 

Who are the Zhongxing Nu Hai? Gender, sexuality, and the configuration of gender-neutral identity in contemporary Taiwan

Yi-Ting LU and Yu-Ying HU                                                  

 

Transgender trouble: gender transcendence in self-ethnographic genderqueer experience in Hong Kong 

Siufung W. L. LAW                                                        

 

Epilogue: on keoi and the politics of pronouns

Helen Hok-Sze LEUNG                                                      

 

Visual essay

(Un)bound: a collaborative project on transgender identity in Singapore

Grace BAEY et al.                                                                                                              

 

Commentary

Contested modernity and its discontents: on Maja Lee Langvad’s Hun er vred

Kim-Su RASMUSSEN                                                      

 

Cultural heritage

The challenge of heritage management for post national symbol: the dilemma of the Chungshan Great Hall’s adaptive reuse, Taiwan

YIN Pao-Ning                                                           

 

Inter/national

Small-medium-large countryism: divesting the nation-state 

 

Kuan-Hsing CHEN 

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Editorial introduction: androgynous bodies and cultures in Asia
 
Michelle H. S. HOa, Eva Cheuk-Yin LIb, and Lucetta Y. L. KAMc
a Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore; b Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; c Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
 
 

 

This special issue seeks to expand discussion on gender, sexuality, and everyday life in twenty-first century Asia by exploring “androgyny” as “neither and both,” a site that has been and continues to be contested and constructed. We locate “androgyny” within the ambiguous, intermediate, and contradictory gender embodiments of male/masculine and female/feminine characteristics in the biological, psychological, and physiological senses. Although the articles in this collection mostly focus on the latter two senses, as we will argue in this introduction, tracing androgynous bodies and cultures can be productive for configuring alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and thinking grounded in the fluidity and diversity of Asian genders and sexualities. In the last few decades, a heterogeneous body of work on genders, sexualities, and queer and transgender lives and issues in Asia has emerged and flourished (e.g. Welker and Kam 2006; Chu and Martin 2007; Martin et al. 2008; Blackwood and Johnson 2012; McLelland and Mackie 2015; Chiang and Wong 2016, 2017; Chiang, Henry, and Leung 2018). Of special concern remain the marginalization of sexual minorities within Asian studies and that of Asian people and theorizations within trans and queer studies. Granted, such foregrounding of EuroAmerican frameworks is increasingly complicated by transnational sexualities, queer of color critique, and queer diaspora studies. It bears asking then why this special issue is interested in androgyny at all. How has androgyny been defined, debated, and made sense of and in what ways does it figure in Asian queer and trans scholarship? How might androgyny be useful as an analytic for thinking about gender- and sexually variant bodies and cultures while also adding (or not) to the aforementioned conversation?