| This thesis analyzes the growing centrality of consumption in the constitution of youth sexualities in East and Southeast Asia. Amid the context's diverse articulations with the processes subsumed under the term 'globalization,' this thesis argues that youth 'regenerate' local constructions of 'traditional' youth sexuality in light of what is understood as 'modern' youth sexuality. Through an examination of nonnormative sexualities, courtship practices, gender dynamics, ideologies of romantic love, and sex practices among youth in East and Southeast Asia, this thesis exhibits the complicated ways in which sexual subjectivities become to be constituted through the global marketplace. Additionally, this thesis attends to the gender inequalities and the ambiguous positions young female bodies are placed in within this contemporary context of East and Southeast Asia. |
