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Center For the Study of Sexualities

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Founded in October of 1995, the Center for the Study of Sexualities at National Central University in Taiwan is a research- and information-based collective focusing on the theme of sexuality in its relation to gender and other social differences such as class, race, age, able body, etc.  Although administrated and partially sponsored by the English Department, the Center conceives itself as an inter-disciplinary effort and recruits its research fellows from various departments in the Liberal Arts College.

Regular activities and projects at the Center include:           

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• inviting internationally renowned sexuality/gender research scholars to NCU for short-term lecture series or yearly visiting positions;

• coordinating exchange student programs with foreign academic institutions;

• organizing our annual International Conference On Sex Education, Sexology, (Trans)Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies  (nicknamed the 4-Sex Conference) and supervising the publication of conference proceedings;

• organizing our annual International Super-Slim Conference On Sexual Politics (nicknamed Super-Slim Confernce) and supervising the publication of conference proceedings
   (If you are interested in any of our international project or activity, feel free to contact us directly.)

• Research Seminar on Gender / Sexuality Studies

• providing gender/sexuality lecture series at collaborating academic institutions

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      providing an amiable gathering place and a small but cozy library with current, academic as well as  popular publications on gender and sexuality;

• sponsoring monthly brown-bag lunch discussions of sexuality for faculty as well as students;

• organizing workshops on sexuality education for middle to high school teachers in the local community;

• participating in public hearings on social policies or legislation regarding sexuality issues, as well as in socio-cultural or community activities, such as women-, AIDS-, sexworker- or gay rights-related issues;

• disseminating information and articles written by members of our Center through our bulletin on the internet.

• maintaining a compilation of local discursive materials related to the issues of gender and sexuality and turning them into computer-search-index databases, or anthology;

• arranging for the reprinting of important, out-of-print and hard-to-find books or journals on the issue of sexuality for reference purposes

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• Bulletin of Sexuality Education, published three times a year for elementary and middle school teachers--temporarily suspended due to workload difficulties.

• A book length journal, Working Papers In Gender/Sexuality Studies, published three times a year for scholars and students in this area (nos. 1 & 2 joint issue on "Sex Work--Prostitute Rights" (1998.1); nos. 3 & 4 joint issue on "Queer: Theory and Politics" (1998.9); nos. 5 & 6 joint issue on "Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence" (1999.6). To enhance circulation and access by the general public, the journal is now transformed and continued by the following book series. 

• A book series on Sexuality and our conference proceedings.  Titles include: Stories of 12 Working Girls (1997); Visionary Essays in Gender-Sexuality Studies (1998); From Queer Space to Education Space (2000).  Gender/Sexuality Politics and Subject Formation (2000); Tongzhi (Queer) Studies (2001); Sex Work Studies (2003); Transgender （2003); Sex Work and Modernity(2004); Body Politics and Media Criticism(2004); Introduction to Politics of Sexuality:Lectures on Sex Rights Movement in Taiwan(2005) ; The Zoophilia Webpage Incident(2006); Penumbrae Query Shadow: Queer Reading Tactics (2007).

• A 280-page basic reading material, The Gender/Sexuality Campus: Radical Education for the New Generation (1998), written especially for middle school teachers who are keen on promoting radical gender/sexuality education. 

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The Conference aims to bring together international visiting scholars and activists as well as local scholars and activists to discuss developing issues related to sexual politics.  The term "super-slim" in the title refers to a special mode of feminine napkin that emphasizes its compact size and its super absorbency, two qualities that pertain to our conference; the adoption of the term as the title of the conference also manifests our intention to articulate the most taboo aspects of female sexuality.    

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The First International Super-Slim Conference On Sexual Politics had Cindy Patton (Emory University) as its keynote speaker and was held in 1997 on three afternoons dating Dec. 13--"Queer Theory and Asian Politics"; Dec. 20--"Gender Politics of Feminist Utopias"; & Dec. 21--"Cyberspace and Social Movement."  Papers presented at the first conference include:

• Cindy Patton, "Stealth Bombers of Desire: The Globalization of  "Alterity" in Emerging Democracies"

• Fran Martin, "Locating Queer: Denaturalization and the Confucian Law"

• Amy Perry, "From Girl Nation to Queer Nation: Homo-erotic Desires in Feminist Utopias"

• Nai-Fei Ding, "A Land Where Cats Don't Sing: The Politics of Herland"

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The Second International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics had Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (City University of New York) as its keynote speaker and was held on October 3rd, 1998.  Papers presented include: 

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• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Affect and Queer Performativity"

• Naifei Ding and Jen-Peng Liu, "Reticent Poetics Queer Politics"

• XiaoHong Zhang, "Queer Family Romance"

• YinBin Ning, "Notes for a History of Ideas on the Emancipation of Sexuality"

• Antonia Chao, "Flowers of Pain: Pervert Politico-Sexual Fantasies in the Nationalist/Communist Fray"

• Josephine Ho,  "From Left to Queer: The Queering of American Homosexual Movement"

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The Third International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics was held on November 27th, 1999 and featured scholars in the area of transgender studies.  Papers include:
 

• Judith Halberstam (University of California, Davis), "Male Fraud: Counterfeit Masculinities and the Case of Brandon Teena"

• Gayatri Gopinath (University of San Diego), "Queer Diasporas: The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire"

• Jose Neil Cabanero Garcia (University of Phillipines), "Performativity, the Bakla, and the Orientalizing Gaze"

• Antonia Chao (Tung-Hai University), "US Space Shuttles Going to the Moon: Global Metaphors and Local Strategies in Building up Taiwan's Lesbian Identities"

• Amie Parry (National Jiau-Tung University), "A Search for the Lost Dialectics of the Invisible Po: Chen Xue anti-realism and anti-reticence"

• Naifei Ding and Jen-Peng Liu (National Central University & National Tsing-Hwa University), " Reticent Poetics Queer Politics II: Alligator Skin, Lesbian Stuffing, Half-Man Half-Horse Qiu Miaojin" 

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  The Fourth International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics was held on November 26th, 2000. 

• Naifei Ding (National Central University), "Stone Butch Blues, Red Stone Femmes"

• Amie Parry (National Jiau-Tong University), "Narcissism and a Catechism: Flashing Objects in Taiwan's Contemporary Music Cultures" 

• Jen-Peng Liu (National Tsing-Hus University), "Deprivation and Turbulence: An Essay on Mourning in Hachioji Testament"

• Atonia Chao (Tung-Hai University), "Banjia/Moving House: A Materialistic Analysis of Taiwan's Lesbian-Transgender Identity Formations from the 1950s to the Present"

• Yin-Bin Ning (National Central University), "An Inquiry intoTransgender Aesthetics: The New Sexy Men and Teenagers"

• <Roundtable Discussioin> Jia-Wen Jiang, Hsiau-Jing, Huei-Tse: "From Gender Education to Transgender Education to Transgender Human Rights"

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   Fifth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

"The Age of Transgender" was held on Dec, 14, 2003

Keynote Speech

Leslie Feinberg (Author, Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors 
      "Sex and Gender Oppression: Finding the Path to Liberation")

Papers

Josephine Ho, "Trans-Sexuality: Bisexual Formations and the Limits of Categories"

Dennis Lin, "The ‘Faggot' Menace in Cyberspace"

Yu-Hsin Chen, "From Upgrading to Body-Constructing: The Transgender Metaphor in The Bicentennial Man"

Jen-Peng Liu, Amie Parry, Naifei Ding, "Realism's Fantasy Structures and Fantasy's Realist Effects: Rereading T/P Narratives"

Cross-Region Panel Discussion

"Transgender Movement and Transgender Subjects"

Panelists: 
Leslie Feinberg (USA)
Minnie Bruce Pratt (USA)
Junko Mitsuhashi (Japan)
Hsu-Kuan (Taiwan)
A-Chiong (Taiwan)

http://www.transgenderwarrior.org/	http://www.mbpratt.org/	http://www4.wisnet.ne.jp/~junko/

Sixth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality  

"Body/Gender" was held on November 27, 2004

Papers

Anne Bolin, "Testy and Docile Bodies: Her-stories of Compliance and Defiance in Women’s Bodybuilding"

Nai-Fei Ding, "Concubinage and Feminist Imaginaries"

Jen-Peng Liu, "In the Shadow of the "School": Politics of Anime Representation of Machine Bodies and Violent Pleasures"

Amie Parry, "Alternative Embodiments in Tolkien’s Trans-species Fantasy: Unequal Love and the Contradictions of Fellowship" 

Jamison Green, "Bodies Moving Beyond Gender Boundaries"

Ya-Fei Hsu, "Shifting Bodies and Gender/Sexuality Markings: Constructing Ownership of the Body"

Panel Discussion

"Gender-Transgressive Bodies"　 

Panelists:
Jamison Green (USA)
Anne Bolin (USA)
Rieng (Taiwan)
Sander (Taiwan)

Seventh Internatioanl Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality

"Taking Pornography Seriously"  was held on March 17, 2007. 

Papers
Laura Kipnis, "How to Look at Pornography"
Yin-Bin Ning, "Taking Pornography Seriously"
Dennis Lin, "The Proscription of Online Male Queer Obscenity in Taiwan"
Ashley Hsu-liang Wu, "Outlet or Dead-end?: The Development and Curtailment of Taiwan Gays, Transgender, and Other Sexual Minorities under Internet Surveillance"
Katrien Jacobs, "Post or Perish: The New Media Schooling of the Amateur Pornographer"

Panel Discussion

"Porn and Selfhood"　 

Panelists:
Cheng-Hong Wang (Taiwan)
Linda Huang (Taiwan)
Laura Kipnis (USA)
Katrien Jacobs (HK)

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The 4-Sex Conference is the most prestigious and the best attended (not to mention the most radical) academic exchange in the field of sexuality studies in Taiwan. 

Papers presented at previous 4-sex conferences include: 

• 1996  The First International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, (Trans)Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (June 29-30, 1996)  

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• Sexology and its Sexual Logic (Daiwie Fu)

• Sexual Revolution: A Marxist Perspective (Josephine Ho)

• Girdles, Sex and Sexuality: The Body-Politico Aesthetics of Taiwan's Lesbians (Antonia Chao)

• Discourse and Agency in Lesbian and Gay Movement in Taiwan (Jia-Chen Ni)

• The Cultural Capital of the Erotic and the Discipline of the Body: Teenage Female Sexuality in Vocational Schools (Ming-Juen Gu)

• Stirring Subjects in the Anti-Sexual Harassment Movement (Ping Wang)

• Grotesque Others: From the Mask of Medusa to Freud, Irigaray and Cixous (Ze-Chong Su)

• Taboo and Transgression: Bataille's Concept of the Erotic (Shou-Chen Lai)

• The Conspiracy of Sexual Deviance: Queering a Sociological Paradigm (Yuan-Hong Chu)

• Idiosyncrasy: Sexual Diversity, Freud, and Social Constructionism (Yin-Bin Ning)

• Discourse Analysis of the News Media in the Taiwan University Adult Film Incident (Tsan-Yin Lo)

• Sex Education Discourse in Hong Kong (Hua-Shan Zhou)

• Panel Discussion: The Politics of Homosexual Movement in Taiwan

• Panel Discussion: Towards a Pluralistic Education of Sexuality

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• 1997  The Second International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, (Trans)Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (May 31-June 1, 1997)  

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• Post-Colonial Reflections on Taiwan's Homosexual Movement and Culture: On the Issue of "Coming Out"?nbsp; (Raymond Wei-Cheng Chu)

• Post-Colonial Homosexuality (Hua-San Zhou)

• To Have or Not to Have a Queer Phallus?: Queering Freudian Oedipal Trajectory (Zhong-Huei Huang)

• From Freud's Case Study to Cixous's Painting: A Few Things about Dora (Ze-Zhong Su) 

• The Life Stories of Twelve Working Girls (Huei-Wen Gee)

• Towards A Multi-Cultural Perspective in Sexuality/Gender Education: Education as Sexuality Education, and Sexuality Education as Education (Yin-Bin Ning and Josephine Ho)

• Invisible Power: An Epistemological Analysis of the Sexual Discourse on Non-Procreative and Non-Kinship Norms (Antonia Chao)

• An Overview/Critique of Several Views on the History of Same-Sex Desire in Ancient China (Rei-Yuan Wu)

• Virtual Space and the Flow of Sexual Discourse (Linda Yang)

• Identity Politics Ends/and Its Own Lack: From the Interaction within Taiwanese Cyberspace to the Dynamics/Visibility of Queer Politics/Discourse (Lucifer Hung)

• From Body/Desire to Identification/Identity: Lesbian Survival in Campus Space (Qiao-|Ting Zhang)

• Searching Everywhere For Miss Right: Lin Qin Xia Same-Sex Performance (Robert Chen and Su-Yi Lin)

• The Psychology of Sex of Su Man Su (Zhuo-Wen Zeng)

• Sexuality and Power: The interaction of sexuality and gender in Sh Shu-qin's HongKong Trilogy (Sh-Xin Kuo)

• Female Teachers and Education Reform (Ru-Huei Zhang)

• Ten Years After: Review of Research on Sexuality and Youth in Hong Kong, 1987-1997 (Tony Wong and Wen-Zhao Lee)

• Are you a Gay, Kuer or Tonzhi?: Notes on the Politics of Hybrid Sexual Identity (Chong Kee Tang)

• "You're Not Natural?": From (Un)Natural Mother to Queer Mother (Yi-Fan Zhang)

• Medicine for Women: The Asymmetrical Relation Between Cock and Bottom (Zhi-Wei Hsieh)

• Sexuality and Desire in Field Studies (Yuan-Hong Chu)

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• 1998  The Third International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, (Trans)Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (April 24-26, 1998) 

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• From Mothering the World to Surrogate Mothering: Interrogating Patriarchal Views of the Political Economy of Taiwan's Post-WWII Medical System (Du-Jian Tsai)

• When Obstetrics Meets "Superstitious" Women: Knowledge, Gender and Power in Taiwan's High Rate of Caesarean Sections (Jia-Ling Wu)

• Doctor-Patient Relationships in Literature: A Case of Nineteenth Century Europe (Shi-Xing Guo)

• Interpellating Homosexual Subjectivity: Stigma and Signification of the Taiwanese Homosexual Culture (Hans Tao-Ming Huang) 

• Case Studies of the Development of Sexual Preference among Taiwanese Lesbians (Ya-Ching Hong)

• Preliminary Notes Toward a Literary History of Incest (Zhuo-Wen Zeng)

• Queering Chinese America: On Norman Wong's Cultural Revolution (David Gee)

• An Investigation of Environmental Factors in Taipei's Legal Prostitution (Yi-Ping Liau)

• The Impact of Self-Identification of Taipei's Legal Prostitutes on their Life and Work (Xiau-Wen Tang)

• Regime in Exile and Bodies in Exile: Subjectivity, Things, Gender/Sexuality in the Public Realm of the 1950s (Antonia Chao)

• The Enlightenment of Hong Kong Prostitutes' Rights Movement (Yue-Lian Yian)

• "Doing" and "Selling": Sex as a Survival Strategy in Trading and Exchange (Shue-Ling Lee)

• Why Sex is a Legitimate Commodity and Should Be So: Some Arguments on Sex Work (Yin-Bin Ning)

• Digital Landscape: Resistance, Identity and Reconstruction of Women on the Internet (Chang-Ling Yang)

• Going to Work in the "Company": An Investigation of Taipei's New Park as a Site for Male Homosexual Performance (Zheng-Zhe Lai)

• The Learning of Gender Roles: The Case of Romance Reading Among Junior High School Girls (Ru-Huey Zhang & Jing-Yue Zeng)

• Understandable Cause, Forgivable Mistake?: A Study of Tolerance of Date Rape Among Taiwanese Youths (Tsan-Ying Luo)

• Panel Discussion: Sexuality Education and Medical Sciences 

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• 1999  The Fourth International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (May 1-2, 1999)  

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• Physical and Psychological Adjustment of Post-Surgery Transsexuals (Shu-Ting Hsu, Hnai-Ying Ke, Rong-Huang Fang, & Rong-Guang Wen)

• The Gender Politics of Transvestite Shows on Taiwanese TV (Yu-Ling Lin)

• Theoretical Investigations into Age Liberation: Toward the (Sexual) Liberation of Children and Teenagers (Yin-Bin Ning)

• She Made a Spectacle Out of Herself: Revisiting the Grotesque and Aesthetic Judgment (Yuan-Hong Zhu)

• Representations of Gender Roles in Disney New Wave Animation Films (Huei-Hua Wang)

• The Fish or the Bearpaw: The Dilemma of Feminist Anti-Sexual-Violence Discourses (Tsan-Ying Lo)

• Gendered Language in Cross-Dressing (Hse-Hsing Kuo)

• A Study of Aids-Related Issues in Taiwan, 1986-1997 (Nai-Ying Ke, Pei-Pei Chen, & Ruei-Ling Zhang)

• It's Too Political to Call it Pornography: A Preliminary Investigation of the Archaeology of Pornography (Shou-Zheng Lai)

• Streetwalking in Hong Kong: Gender and Community and Organization (Jie-Hsin Yian)

• Anna O.: The Ghost and the Grotesque of Psychoanalysis (Tze-Zhong Su)

• Politics and Ethics: On the Reception of Kristeva Motherhood Theory by British and American Academic Feminists (Guei-Zhi Wu)

• A Weird Mirror: Reading Chinese Classical Men-Men Romance between the Emperor and His Subjects Through Marlow's Edward II (Wei-Cheng Zhu)

• Naked Letter: Peeking At an 18th-Century Homosexual Novel (Kai-Ling Liu)

• We are Family?: On the Familial Mechanism-Identity Politics and the Possibility of Resistance in The Bastard Son and The Contrary Daughter (Yao-Min Chen)

• Sexuality, Culture, and Political Economy: The Homosexual Experience of Minnan Gays (Scott Simon)

• The Reproduction of the Sexual Hierarchy: An Ethnography of Gay Saunas in Hong Kong (Jing-Xiang Jian)

• On the Protection of Homosexuals Offered by the European Human Right Covenant (Hong-Cheng Zhang)

• Gays in the Press: A Study of Fifteen Years of Reports on Gay-Related Issues in Taiwanese Press (Antonia Chao)

• Defining Bisexuality (Zuo-Ming Hsu)

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• 2000  The Fifth International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (April 22-23, 2000)  

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• The Shadows and Penumbrae of Late Qing Discourse on "Gender Equality" (Ren-Peng Liu)

• Nation, Sexuality and The Teaching of Chinese to Foreigners: A Gender Analysis of the Historical Images of Female Chinese Teachers (Huei-Min Lee)

• Reflections on Feminist Geography and Middle-School Geography Education in Taiwan (Wen-Yu Wu)

• Aids, The Sexual/Moral Branding: A View in Public Health (Jia-Hua Hsiao)

• Homosexual Christians and Internet Communication (Qian Yiou)

• Real Identities in Cyber Contexts: The Case of IRC in Taiwan (Yao-Min Chen)

• Image Consumption Culture and the Gendered Laws of Fetishism (Qing-Ying Wang)

• Fetishism: A Symbol of Decadence? (Zuo-Ming Hsu)

• Sexual/Harassment and Modernity (Yin-Bin Ning)

• From 'Molly's Song' in Ulysses to the Personal Nude Albums of Female Stars: A Psychoanalytical View on Sexual Autonomy and the Gaze of the Father (Zong-Huei Huang)

• Dialectical Relations between The Gay Movement and Theories of Social Movement (Yu-Lin Lai)

• Stigmatized Representations and Gender Transgression/Pleasure: A Study of New York Queer Performances (Ai-Zhu Zhang)

• A Study of Male Public Relations Officer in Night Clubs (Tsui-Song Wu)

• Sexuality, Power and the Exotic Dancers: A Field Observation (Josephine Ho)

• Panel Discussion: Sex and the Internet (Man-Lun Ng, Jing-Yi Liu, Seba, Sherman Chang, Yin-Bin Ning) 

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2001 The Sixth International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies (Sept 15-16, 2001)

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• The Sex Revolution in Contemporary China (Pan, Sui-Ming)

• Marriage Laws and Extra-Marital Affairs (Li, Yin-He)

• Gender/Sexuality Experiences: Hong Kong Women's Experience with Underwears (Gong, Shuk-Mei)

• Chinese Homosexuals (Zhang, Bei-Chuan)

• Homosexuals or TongZhi: The Raging Labeling War (Hsu, Zuo-Ming)

• Being Outed and Outing, Anxiety and Pride: A Lesbian Outing Story (Chen,Yu-Rong)

• Hong Kong Sex Work and Their Resistance against Politicians (Yien, Yue-Lian)

• Body Politics of Hong Kong Sex Workers (Travis Kong & Lee, Wai-Yi)

• Sex Work and Modernity (Ning, Yin-Bin)

• Sexual Subjectivity: From Legal Subject, Body Subject to Desire Subject (Gong, Zhuo-Juen)

• Hong Kong's "Bill on the Prevention of Child Pornography" and Its Problems (Ng, Ming-Lan)

• The Em[bodi]ment of Identity: Constructing Transgender (Josephine Ho)

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• Call for Action: Support for the Ex-legal Prostitutes of Taipei

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