In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India

By Amrita Narayanan Asian Sexualities, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How do we think about sexual freedom in a way that is capacious enough to include countries that have not had a sexual revolution?

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

By Jessica Hinchy Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

For many colonial officials, Hijras were not only a danger to ‘public morals’, but also a threat to colonial political authority.

Divine, Demonic and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China

By Hsiao-wen Cheng Asian Sexualities, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How were “manless women” viewed in Song Dynasty China?

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

By Howard Chiang Asian Sexualities, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance.

‘Cao Cao loved him’: Same-sex love at the end of the Han dynasty

By Laurie Raye Archives of Desire, Asian Sexualities

Same-sex intimacy was commonplace throughout the Han dynasty, including the turbulent Three Kingdoms era.

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande Asian Sexualities, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture

By Hongwei Bao Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.