Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW



Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Straitjacket Sexualities
Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8047-7301-0 (pbk), xiv + 277 pp.
Kasuhiko Suganuma
Contact Moments:
The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press 2012
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ISBN: (pbk), 978-988-8083-71-8, xiii + 216 pp.
78-3 (pbk), 248 pp.
Ruth Vanita
Gender, Sex, and the City:
URDU REKHTĪ Poetry in India. 1780738211;1870

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
ISBN: 798-0-230-34064-0 (hbk), xii + 296 pp.
Patrick Galbraith
Photographs by Androniki Christodoulou
Otaku Spaces
Seattle: Chin Music Press, 2012
ISBN: 9780984457656 (pbk), 237 pp.


Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose (editors)
South Asian Feminisms
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-5179-5 (pbk), vii + 422pp.
Karin M. Polit
Women of Honour:
Gender and Agency among Dalit Women in the Central Himalayas

Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan 2012
ISBN: 978 81 250 4267 9 (hbk), xvi + 363 pp.

Reena Patel
Working the Night Shift:
Women in India's Call Center Industry

Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2010
ISBN: 978 81 250 4265 5 (pbk), xii + 191 pp.
Noriko J. Horiguchi
Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body
University of Minnesota Press, 2011
ISBN 978-0-8166-6978-3 (pbk), 248 pp.

Vasavth Kannabiran
A Grief to Bury: Memories of Love, Work & Loss
Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2011
ISBN: 978 81 250 4305 8 (hbk), xxvi+ 370 pp.
Bishakha Datta (ed.)
9 Degrees of Justice:
New Perspectives on Violence against Women in India

New Delhi: Zubaan, 2010
ISBN: 978 81 89884 50 5 (hbk), vi + 358 pp.

Prabha Kotiswaran
Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-691-14250-0 (pbk), xi + 298 pp.
Dalya Adubi
Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature: The Family Frontier
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011
ISBN: 978 90 04 18114 4(hbk), x + 335 pp.


Frenchy Lunning (ed.)
Mechademia: User Enhanced vol. 6
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8166-7734-4 (pbk), xvi + 319 pp.
Linda Cooke Johnson
Women of the Conquest Dynasties: Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3404-3 (hbk) xxxiii + 253 pp.


Hans Tao-Ming Huang
Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University PRess, 2011
ISBN: 978-988-8083-08-4 (pbk), viii +275 pp.
Françoise Lionnet & Shu-mei Shih (eds)
The Creolization of Theory
Durham: Duke University Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4846-7 (pbk), viii + 306 pp.


Zowie Davy
Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment
Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0565-8 (hbk), 195 pp.
Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow (ed.)
Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity are Making a Difference
New York: The Feminist Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-1-55861-699-8 (pbk), xxxii +406 pp.



Women of China English Monthly
April 2011
ISSN: 1000-9388
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Saitō Tamaki (trans J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson)
Beautiful Fighting Girl
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5451-2 (pbk), xxv + 213 pp.
Marilyn Metta
Writing Against, Alongside and Beyond Memory:
Lifewriting as Reflexive, Poststructuralist Feminist Research Practice

Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG
ISBN: 978-3-0343-0515-0 (pbk), 312 pp.
Christine R. Yano
Airborne Dreams: "Nisei" Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways
Durham: Duke University Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4850-4 (pbk), 248 pp.


Shao-hua Liu
Passage to Manhood:
Youth Migration, Heroin and AIDS in Southwest China

Stanford CA.: Standford University Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8047-7025-5 (pbk), xiv + 232 pp.
Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth eds
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia:
Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century

Durham: Duke University Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8233-4826-9 (pbk), viii + 335 pp.
Jin-Kyung Lee
Service Economies:
Militarism, Sex Work, and Migrant Labor in South Korea

Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5126-9 (pbk), viii + 305 pp.
JaneMarie Maher and Wendy Chavkin (eds)
The Globalization of Motherhood: Deconstructions and Reconstructions of Biology and Care
London and New York: Routledge, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-77894-7 (hbk), xi + 271 pp.


Mallarika Sinha Roy
Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (1967–1975)
London and New York: Routledge, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-56235-5 (hbk), xiv + 210 pp.
Rainer Emig and Anthony Rowland (eds)
Performing Masculinity
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-57798-5 (hbk), xiii + 240pp.


Eleana J. Kim
Adopted Territory:
Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

Durham: Duke University Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4695-1 (pbk), xv + 320 pp.
Lyndsey Moon (ed.)
Counselling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity
Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010
ISBN: 9780754676836 (hbk), xii + 238 pp.


Kath Browne and Catherine J. Nash (eds)
Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research
Farhham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010
ISBN: 978-075-467-8434 (hbk), xiv + 301 pp.
Yau Ching (ed.)
As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010
ISBN: 978 -962-209-987-6 (pbk), xi + 218 pp.

Travis S.K. Kong
Chinese Male Homosexualitues; Memba, tongzhi and golden boy
New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-45189-5 (hbk), xxii + 295 pp.
Evelyn Blackwood
Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3487-6 (pbk), ix + 251 pp.


Marshall Clark
Masculinitas: Culture, Gender and Politics in Indonesia
Caulfield: Monash University Press, 2010
ISBN: 9781876924768 (pbk), ix + 182 pp.
Ise Monogatari
(translated and with commentary by Joshua S. Mostow and Royall Tyler)
The Ise Stories
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3451-7 (pbk), x + 269 pp.


Translated by Susan Tennant
The 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue An English Translation of Musume Junreiki
Bowen Island, BC: Bowen Publishing, 2010
ISBN: 1450540759 (pbk), 268 pp.
Mark Driscoll
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895–1945
Duke University Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4761-3 (pbk), xix + 361 pp.

Tatiana Gabroussenko
Soldiers on the Front: Development in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i University Press and
Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai'i, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3396-1 (hbk), 239 pp.
Wen-Shan Yang, Melody Chia-Wen Lu
Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration Demographic Patterns and Social Issues
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010
ISBN: 978 90 8964 054 3, 264 pp.

Fran Martin
Backward Glances:
Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Erotic Imagery

Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4660-7 (pbk), xi + 290 pp.

Sun Jung
Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption:
Yonsama, Rain, Oldboy, K-Pop Idols

TransAsia: Screen Cultures Seriese
Hong Kong University Press, 2010
ISBN: 978-988-8028-67-2 (pbk), 223 pp.




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