
Geisha of a Different Kind
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Through ethnographic observation of queer Asian American communities and Asian American drag shows, interviews with gay Asian American men, and a reading of current media and popular culture depictions of Asian Americans, Han argues that gay Asian American men, used to gender privilege within their own communities, must grapple with the idea that, as Asians, they have historically been feminized as a result of Western domination and colonization, and as a result, they are minorities within the gay community, which is itself marginalized within the overall American society. Han also shows that many Asian American gay men can turn their unusual position in the gay and Asian American communities into a positive identity. In their own conception of self, their Asian heritage and sexuality makes these men unique, special, and, in the case of Asian American drag queens, much more able to convey a convincing erotic femininity. Challenging stereotypes about beauty, nativity, and desirability, Geisha of a Different Kind makes a major intervention in the study of race and sexuality in America.
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"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)More details
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Geisha of a Different Kind
- 1. Being an Oriental, I Could Never Be Completely a Man: Gendering Asian Men
- 2. Sexy Like a Girl and Horny Like a Boy: Contemporary Gay "Western" Narratives about Gay "Asian" Men
- 3. It's Like They Don't See Us at All: Race and Racism in Gay America
- 4. Asian Girls Are Prettier: How Drag Queens Saved Us
- 5. Finding Home in Gaysian America: Constructing Gay Asian Male Identities
- Conclusion: Who Gets to Be Gay, Who Gets to Be Asian?
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- About the Author
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