Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender

Asian American Sexual PoliticsThe Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality\nAuthor(s): Rosalind S. Chou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781442209244, 978-1442209244\nSynopsis\nAsian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. The book draws on sixty in-depth interviews to show how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality tend to reinforce the social and political dominance for whites, particularly white males, even in the supposed post-racial United States.\n\nDrawing on established scholarship on the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality, Asian American Sexual Politics shows how power dynamics shape the lives of young Asian Americans today. Asian American women are often constructed as hyper-sexual docile bodies, while Asian American men are often racially castrated. The books interview excerpts show the range.