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Front Cover -- About the Book -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Author's Preface -- Series Preface by Mina Roces -- 1: Researching Heteronormativity -- Socialisation and normalisation -- Truly Asian? -- Research design -- Interviewing: Meaningful encounters -- Reflections -- Emerging themes -- Embodiment -- Negotiating respectability -- Structure of the book -- 2: Sexual Politics - Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics, and Symbolic Violence -- Why study sexual politics? -- Heteronormativity -- Passionate aesthetics and symbolic violence -- Symbolic subversion -- Socio-sexual citizenship -- Sexual politics and socio-sexual citizenship -- Terminology -- 3: God's Creatures - The Public Arena of Sexuality -- Scope -- Religion -- Islam -- Hinduism -- Sex workers -- Women-loving women -- Widows -- State power -- Sex workers' strategies -- Women in same-sex relationships -- Conclusion -- 4: (De) Constructing Happy Asian Families -- Scope -- Some historical notes -- Cracks in the system -- Importance of pre-marital virginity -- Arranged marriages -- Polygyny in Indonesia -- India: Joint families and dowry deaths -- Communication between spouses -- Money matters -- Conclusion: Patriarchal values -- 5: Negotiating Respectability and 'Normal' Family -- Scope -- 'Normal' families -- Growing up 'normal' -- A 'good' marriage -- 'Normal' disappointments -- Symbolic violence -- Conclusion -- 6: Reduced to Mud - Expulsion and Repulsion -- Scope -- Widowed and divorced women -- Sex work -- Women-loving women -- Conclusion -- 7: Something Divine - A Satisfying Sex Life? -- Scope -- Sex workers' private lives -- Widows' lives -- Women living with women -- Conclusion -- 8: Entertainers and Soft Butches - Identities and Subjectivities -- Scope -- Sex workers' identity -- Views of women in same-sex relationships -- Views of widowed and divorced women