Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation

Yanqiu Rachel Zhou is a professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (IGHC) at McMaster University, Canada. She has published over forty scholarly articles and is the co-editor of two books (published by Routledge, 2016 and 2017) and a special issue on Time and Globalization of the journal Globalizations, 2016. She was the lead editor of a themed symposium on Transnationalism, Sexuality, and HIV Risk (published in Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2017).Christina Sinding is a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, jointly appointed to the School of Social Work and the Department of Health, Aging and Society. Her research focuses on the social structuring of lay people’s experiences of illness and care and their health-related decision making.Donald Goellnicht (1953–2019) was a professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Canada. He was formerly Chair of the Department, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster. He made lasting contributions to critical race studies, diaspora/transnational studies, and queer studies – and, with this collection, brought these themes into important and lively dialogue.

• 1.Introduction Part I: Transnational Sexualities: Migration, Diasporic Spaces and Sexual Citizenship 2.Sexuality and borders: differential movements of queer migrants within the borderland 3.‘You can reject me; I can also reject you’: intersections of migration, race/ethnicity and sexuality among Chinese diasporic gay men in Australia 4.Transnational sexuality: trajectories of Chinese queer immigrants to Canada Part II: Transnational sexual politics: global markets, gender and geopolitics 5.Constrained transnational mobility: Filipina sex workers’ navigation of gendered border regimes in Asia 6.(Un)seeing the other(s): transnational sex work, transnational athletic sponsorship, and multifocalisation in Han Ong’s The Disinherited 7.The transnationalisation of online sexual violation: the case of ‘revenge pornography’ as a theoretical and political problematic 8.Beyond queer liberalism: on queer globalities and regionalism from postcolonial Hong Kong Part III: Transnational sexual activism: global queer movements, local experiences and resistances 9.‘United in diversity’: resonances of the ‘global gay’ in EU identity discourses 10.Casa Miga: a case of LGBT-led, transnational sexual activism in Latin America 11.Progressive LGBTQI movements in a transnational context: toward a queer liberation perspective 12.Heteroactivism: transnational resistances to LGBT equalities