Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies by Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

296 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced

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Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity—a...

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