Geisha of a Different Kind
Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
$74.91
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2015
Summary
In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’ being sidelined in the gay community is only the latest in a long line of racially-motivated offenses they face in the United States.Repeatedly marginalized by both the white-centric queer commun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479855209 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479855200 |
| Author: | C. Winter Han |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Intersections |
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Critics Review
“The sharp analysis in this book offers a way to see the deeply penetrating influence of race while offering expansive models for living in (LGBTQI) America.”- American Journal of Sociology
“Geisha of a Different Kind bravely engages with the struggles and triumphs of Asian American gay men as they inhabit American society and its gay mainstream.A lucid study with an unflinching focus on the daily contingencies of these men’s lives, this book is an important contribution to the scholarly understanding of contemporary U.S. sex/gender systems and their fraught links to racial formations.” - Martin F. Manalansan IV,author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora “The sharp analysis in this book offers a way to see the deeply penetrating influence of race while offering expansive models for living in (LGBTQI) America.” (American Journal of Sociology)
About The Author
C. Winter Han
C. Winter Han is Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College. He is the author of Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America and Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire.
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