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Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore: Re-thinking global sexualities book cover

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Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore Re-thinking global sexualities

By Shawna Tang Copyright 2017
210 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with local culture and how it relates to global modernities and dominant understandings of what it means to be queer. It engages with debates about... Read more

01. List of diagrams and illustrations 
 
02. Chapter One: Introduction 

03. Chapter Two: Conceptual underpinnings of global queering 

04. Chapter Three: Postcolonial Singapore: State, nationalism and sexuality 

05. Chapter Four: Sexual politics in Singapore: Sodomy law and lesbian resistance 

06. Chapter Five: Transnational politics of local queer activism and lesbian activists 

07. Chapter Six: ‘Modern’ lesbian lives in postcolonial Singapore 

08. Chapter Seven: Recollections, remarks and re-making the relations 

09. Methodological Appendix 

Biography

Shawna Tang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Western Sydney University, Australia. Formerly a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and former Deputy Editor of International Sociology. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Sociology at the University of Sydney.

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