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

By Durba Mitra Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, 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, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

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

The Politics of Love in Myanmar

By Lynette Chua Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

An intimate account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar’s post-2011 political transition.

After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

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

After Eunuchs tells a history of sex change in modern China.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

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

Qay identity and queer activism in contemporary China from a queer Marxist perspective.

Tongzhi: “Queer” Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover

By GVGK Tang Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

Chinese ‘tongzhi’ renounce Western LGBT politic and reclaim an indigenous “queer” identity.

“A Poison to the Race”: Women, Foreigners and VD in Modern Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci Asian Sexualities

Japanese “AIDS panics” characterized women as the carriers of foreign-born sexual diseases.