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I think Asian American Sexuality would be a very interesting topic to pursue. There may be more material on this than most of the topics we thought of. We could discuss stereotypes of Asian American Sexuality - how it's portrayed in pop culture perhaps. (eg. Charlie's Angels, Miami Vice, etc.)
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Maybe a part of the syllabus we can talk about Asian American stereotypes in general. What are some of the stereotypes and where does the generalization come from? The history of it?
I also did research on Asian American Sexuality and found a few things that might be helpful, when consider this topic further.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be important to try to give incorporate issues on both male and female sexuality. It might be interesting to look at the changes in Asian American sexuality through the lens of films (both new and old) and different time periods, among many other things.
Some of the first websites that came up when I did a little research:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/americansons.html
http://socyberty.com/ethnicity/asian-american-stereotypes-of-masculinity-and-sexuality/
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1661
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/faculty/henryyu/APACHP/teacher/research/sueyoshi.htm
Also 'Dragon Ladies" might be a book worth looking into.
Saving Face follows Wilhelmina, a young Chinese-American surgeon as she deals with her unwed mother's pregnancy, and the obligations of her dancer girlfriend Vivian. Wil struggles with allocating time between her mother, who is shunned by the Chinese-American community for being pregnant and unwed and thus has come to live with Wil, and her girlfriend, Vivian, whom she presents to her mother as only a friend. At the same time, Wil's mother must decide whether the demands of her father's reputations, or the demands of her own heart, are more important. Wil's mother soon realizes that she must marry a man named Cho to regain her father's "face" and not be an embarrassment. Wil then finds out that her mother is in love with someone else and rushes to break up her wedding. At the same time Wil loses Vivian because she is afraid of going public so Vivian leaves for Paris. After three months, Vivian's and Wil's mothers reunite the two at a party and they end up kissing in front of everyone in the center of the dance floor.
ReplyDeleteEng, David L. "Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies." Social Text, Queer Transexions of Race, Nation, and Gender 52/53 (1997): 31-52. Print.
Ethnicity and Sexuality
Joane Nagel
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 26, (2000), pp. 107-133
Published by: Annual Reviews
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/223439
Homosexuality, Seropositivity, and Family Obligations: Perspectives of HIV-Infected Men Who Have Sex with Men in China
Yanqiu Rachel Zhou
Culture, Health & Sexuality, Vol. 8, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2006), pp. 487-500
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4005560
Influences of Culture on Asian Americans' Sexuality
Sumie Okazaki
The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 39, No. 1, Promoting Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior (Feb., 2002), pp. 34-41
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/381342
Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature
Sau-ling C. Wong, Jeffrey J. Santa Ana
Signs, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 171-226
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175619
Bisexual and Homosexual Behavior and HIV Risk among Chinese-, Filipino-, and Korean-American Men
David R. Matteson
The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 34, No. 1 (1997), pp. 93-104
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3813310
Hom, A. Y. (1994). Stories from the homefront: Perspectives of Asian American parents with lesbian daughters and gay sons. Amerasia Journal, 20, 19-32.