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

By Hsiao-wen Cheng Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews

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

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

By Howard Chiang Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, 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, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth

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, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

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

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought

By Durba Mitra Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour

How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.