Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950 (Hardcover)

Introduction Raquel Reyes Part 1: Texts 1. Other Pleasures? Anal Sex and Medical Discourse in Pre-modern China Vivienne Lo and Penelope Barrett 2. Censured Sexual Acts and Early Medieval Society in India Daud Ali 3. Same-sex Relations and Transgender Identities in Islamic Southeast Asia, from the Fifteenth Century to the 1940s William G. Clarence-Smith Part 2: People 4. Strange Bedfellows: Male Homo-Eroticism and Politics in Thai History Tamara Loos 5. The Shogun’s Lover’s Would-be Swedish Boyfriend: Inoue Masashige, Tokugawa Iemitsu and Olof Eriksson Willman Timon Screech Part 3: Crimes and Sins 6. Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Manila: The Luck of a Mandarin from TaiwanRaquel Reyes 7. Male-Male Sex, Bestiality and Incest in the Early-Modern Indonesian Archipelago: Perceptions and Penalties Peter Boomgaard