{"id":2390,"date":"2015-12-12T06:49:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T06:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2018-01-11T01:52:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T01:52:23","slug":"2390","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=2390","title":{"rendered":"Slightly Bent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cover-Palgrave-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2220\" src=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cover-Palgrave-cropped-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"cover-Palgrave-cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cover-Palgrave-cropped-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cover-Palgrave-cropped-1024x925.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cover-Palgrave-cropped.jpg 1513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I launched my new book <a href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=2196\">The Afterglow of Women&#8217;s Pornography in Post-Digital China<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aco.hk\/\">ACO book store <\/a>in Hong Kong. It was a cathartic kind of event, as the launch can be for the author who finally exits a space of desolation and mental exhaustion while trying to communicate with the outer world.\u00a0Egret Chow delivered a testimony about being labeled \u00a0&#8220;left-over woman&#8221; in mainland China&#8211;the class of women who defy the patriotic push to marry and procreate.<\/p>\n<p>In my book I also write about ghost fictions and propose a notion of phantom feminism based on Jack Halberstam&#8217;s theory of shadow feminism and Judith Zeitlin&#8217;s feminist reading of ancient ghost stories.(1) I had a chat about this with Ling Tang, a Ph.D. student in sociology who could not endorse &#8220;phantom feminism&#8221; and perhaps believed that I should be more attentive to the material realm of sexual relations and sexual politics. But then I have been stuck inside the porn0-mediated-realm for a while and still believe in its unique affect.<\/p>\n<p>Hence there is a chapter pornographic Boys&#8217; Love manga and online fictions, the extensive subcultures of women&#8217;s gay erotica that have very little to do with their embodied sexual practices. The news media have recently tried to probe the complex erotic fantasies of these &#8220;straight&#8221; woman but straight is also an inadequate label. In Australia they used to label it &#8220;bent&#8221;&#8211;these women and their fantasies are not straight, not lesbian, not trans, not perv, but just slightly <strong><em>bent.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(1) Zeitlin, Judith (1994) \u201cShared Dreams: The Story of the Three Wives\u2019 Commentary on the Peony Pavillion,\u201d In <em>Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies<\/em>, 54:1, pp. 127-179;\u00a0Zeitlin, Judith T (2007) <em>The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in 17<sup>th<\/sup> Century Chinese Literature<\/em>, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I launched my new book The Afterglow of Women&#8217;s Pornography in Post-Digital China in the ACO book store in Hong Kong. It was a cathartic kind of event, as the launch can be for the author who finally exits a space of desolation and mental exhaustion while trying to communicate with the outer world.\u00a0Egret Chow&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?p=2390\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slightly Bent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}