Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements Vol. 1 No. 2 August 2000
Special issue on “politics and sexuality”
An introduction
Naifei DING and Jeannie MARTIN
‘Please explain?’ ignorance, poverty and the past
Meaghan MORRIS
So, who is the stripper? State power, pornography and the cultural logic of representability in post-martial-law Taiwan
Antonia CHAO
Poems: ‘A sweet revenge’, ‘Purple underground’, ‘Jiang Yuan, mother of the Chinese people’, ‘Ventriloquy’
HSIA Yü (Translated and introduced by Steve BRADBURY)
What’s so Queer about Happy Together?
Audrey YUE
Performativity, the Bakla and the orientalizing gaze
J. Neil C. GARCIA
Professionalization and self-empowerment: conversations with Taiwanese sex workers
Josephine HO
Betel-nut beauties
Chin-pao CHEN
Prostitutes, parasites and the house of state feminism
Naifei DING
Problematizing Asia
How does Asia mean? （Part II）
SUN Ge
Rethinking the Movements
Post-war feminist perspectives on sex work/sex workers in Japan
Aisa KIYOSUE
Japan’s militarization and Okinawa’s bases: making peace
TOMIYAMA Ichiro
Formations
Banana bingo on nuclear oven island: a fable
LEOSON
Dossiers
I. Roads to peace: conflicts and alliances
Indonesian women’s responses to violence: towards an alternative concepts of human security
Melanie BUDIANTA
Aceh’s women show the road to peace: reflections on International Women’s Day
Carla BIANPOEN
Indonesian political transition, democracy and women’s movements: experience and reflections
Chusnul MAR’IYAH
II. The controversy over ‘Fire’: a select dossier
Introduction
Mary E. JOHN and Tejaswini NIRANJANA
Set this house on Fire
Carol UPADHYA
Mirror politics: Fire, Hindutva and Indian culture
Mary JOHN and Tejaswini NIRANJANA
Cultural politics of Fire
Ratna KAPUR