Recommended Resources

Below are some of our recommendations and readings as we navigate our course together. Alternatively, please visit the HKU Main Library or online via HKU Portal - My Library. Additionally, we will notify you ahead of time for new resources via in-class or course Moodle.

The Yogyakarta Principles - http://www.yogyakartaprinciples.org/

Nanda, S. (2000). Gender diversity: Cross-cultural variations. Illinois: Waveland Press

Transgender Asia - research on the transgender experience - http://samwinter.org/transgenderasia/

Garcia, J. N. C. (2009). Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM. HKU Press/ University of the Philippines Press.
Chapter 4: Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema Queer Visuals Edited by Srija Sanyal
K(Queer)-POP, Jungmin Kwon
Chiang, H. (ed.) (2012). Transgender China. Palgrave McMillan. (Chapters on Fa Dan)
LeVay,S. and Valente,S. (2009) Human Sexuality. (3rd Edition). Sunderland: Sinauer. (Introductory concepts chapters, 1,3,4,6)
McMillan, J. (2006). Sex, science and morality in China. London: Routledge.
Roughgarden, J. (2004). Evolution?s rainbow: diversity, gender and sexuality in nature and people. Berkeley: University of California Press. Seidman, S., Fischer, N., and Meeks, C. (eds.) 2007. Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays and Interviews. London: Routledge Suthrell,C. (2004). Unzipping gender: sex, cross-dressing and culture. Oxford: Berg.
Sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~tboellst/bio/Rights.pdf (on Bisu)
Queer 'East Asia' as an Assemblage of Power, Alterity, and Postcolonial Affect: An Action Note (on New Half and transness and queerness in East Asia.
Alegre, B. (2018). Chapter: From Bakla to Transpinays. Taken from The Handbook of Schools and Schooling in Asia. Routledge International. Eds. Kennedy, K and Lee, J. ISBN 9781138908499 - CAT# Y186094. Section 16 – Chapter 82.
Brewer, C. (2001). Holy Confrontation Religion, Gender and Sexuality in the Philippines. Institute of Women’s Studies, St. Scholastica’s College Press.
Brewer, C. (1999). Chapter: Baylan, Asog, Transvestism, and Sodomy: Gender, Sexuality and the Sacred in Early Colonial Philippines. Taken from Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian