Embodying Asian/American Sexualities

This book is conceived as a reader for use in American studies, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies, performance studies, and queer studies. It also contains new scholarship on Asian/American sexualities that would be useful for faculty and students. In particular, this volume highlights materials that receive little academic attention such as works on Southeast Asian migrants, mixed race cultural production, and Asian/American pornography. As an interdisciplinary anthology, this collection weaves together various forms of 'knowledge'_autobiographical accounts, humanistic research, community-based work, and artistic expression. Responsive to the imbrication of knowledge and power, the authors aspire to present a diverse sample of discourses that construct Asian/American bodies. They maintain that the body serves as the primary interface between the individual and the social, yet, as Elizabeth Grosz noted over a decade ago, feminist theory, and gender and sexuality studies more generally, 'has tended, with some notable exceptions, to remain uninterested in or unconvinced about the relevance of refocusing on bodies in accounts of subjectivity.' This volume attempts to address this concern.

Gina Masequesmay is associate professor in the Asian American Studies Department at California State University, Northridge. Sean Metzger is assistant professor of English and theater studies at Duke University.

Chapter 1 1. Embodying Asian/American Sexualities
Chapter 2 2. The Rice Room: Scenes from a Bar
Chapter 3 3. Pornography and Its Dis/Contents: A Roundtable Discussion with Anjali Arondekar, Richard Fung, and Sylvia Chong
Chapter 4 4. The One That She Wants: Margaret Cho, Mediatization, and Autobiographical Performance
Chapter 5 5. Novell-Aah!: A Short Play
Chapter 6 6. And the Crow Cries Before He Dies: A Brandon Lee Spoken Word Soliloquy
Chapter 7 7. Queer Theory and Anti-Racism Education: Politics of Race and Sexuality in the Classroom and Beyond
Chapter 8 8. The Anxiety Over Borders
Chapter 9 9. An Interview with Pauline Park
Chapter 10 10. Public Agenda and Private Struggles: Khmer Girls in Action
Chapter 11 11. Family, Citizenship, and Selfhood in Luong Ung's First They Killed My Father
Chapter 12 12. Homosexuality and Korean Immigrant Protestant Churches
Chapter 13 13. Finding Fellatio: Friendship, History, and Yone Noguchi
Chapter 14 14. Ghosts