1st Edition
Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950
192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western... Read more
Introduction Raquel Reyes Part 1: Texts 1. Other Pleasures? Anal Sex and Medical Discourse in Pre-modern China Vivienne Lo and Penelope Barrett 2. Censured Sexual Acts and Early Medieval Society in India Daud Ali 3. Same-sex Relations and Transgender Identities in Islamic Southeast Asia, from the Fifteenth Century to the 1940s William G. Clarence-Smith Part 2: People 4. Strange Bedfellows: Male Homo-Eroticism and Politics in Thai History Tamara Loos 5. The Shogun’s Lover’s Would-be Swedish Boyfriend: Inoue Masashige, Tokugawa Iemitsu and Olof Eriksson Willman Timon Screech Part 3: Crimes and Sins 6. Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Manila: The Luck of a Mandarin from Taiwan Raquel Reyes 7. Male-Male Sex, Bestiality and Incest in the Early-Modern Indonesian Archipelago: Perceptions and Penalties Peter Boomgaard
Biography
Raquel A. G. Reyes is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK and at the Royal Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). Her research interests include history of medicine and science from transnational perspectives, overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, and transregional trade networks and global exchanges.
William G. Clarence-Smith is Professor in the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. He is the chief editor of the Journal of Global History and has written widely on diasporas, labour, sexuality and consumption.
