Josephine Chuen-juei Ho
Distinguished Professor, Department of English
NationalCentralUniversity, Chungli, Taiwan 320
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Academic Credentials
1992 Doctor of Philosophy, IndianaUniversity, Dept. of English
1981 Doctor of Education, University of Georgia, Dept. of Language Education
1975 Master of Science, University of Pennsylvania, School of Education
1972 Bachelor of Arts, NationalChengchiUniversity, Dept. of Western Languages and Literature
Professional Experience
2006-2009Kwan Fong CRD Research Associate in Cultural Education and Policy, LingnanUniversity, Hong Kong
2005-2007President, Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan
2004-2007Chair, Dept. of English, National Central University, Taiwan
2003-presentCoordinator, UST Cross-Campus Postgraduate Program in Cultural Studies
2003Visiting Professor, OchanomizuUniversity, Tokyo, Japan
2001-presentProfessor, National Central University, Taiwan, Dept. of English
1995-presentFounder and Coordinator, Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University, Taiwan
1988-2001 Associate Professor, National Central University, Taiwan, Dept. of English
1981-1982Associate Instructor, IndianaUniversity, Dept. of English
1981-1983Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, Dept. of English
1978-1981Research Assistant, University of Georgia, Dept. of LanguageEducation
1975-1978Instructor and Director of Language Lab, Providence University, Taiwan
Honors and Awards
2006-Distinguished Professor, National Central University, Taiwan
2005 Nominee, 1000 Women for Nobel Peace Prize
2004 Outstanding Research Award, National Central University, Taiwan
1994Woman Who Changed Taiwan, Awarded byUnited Evening News, Taiwan
1994 Woman of the Year, Awarded by Independence Evening News, Taiwan
Editorial Work
2009-presentAdvisory Board Member, International Society for Chinese Sexual Health, ISCSH
2008-presentEditor, Chinese Sex Rights Research
2008-2009Editor, Chinese Sexuality Literature and Art Research
2008-presentEditorialBoard Member, Queer Asia Book Series, Hong Kong University Press
2008-presentEditorial Board Member, Chinese Sexuality Research
2008-presentEditorial Board Member, International Chinese Sexology Journal
2005-presentReferree, Fe/Male Bodies
2005-presentAdvisory Board Member, International Resource Network, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York
2004-presentAdvisory Board Member,Gendering Asia - NIAS Press book series
2004-presentAdvisory Board Member, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movement
2004-presentEditorial Board Member, Journal of Chinese Feminism, People’s Republic of China
2003-presentEditor, Book Series on Gender/Sexuality Studies, Center for the Study of Sexuality Studies, National Central University, Taiwan
2001-2003Editor, Book Series on Gender/Sexuality Studies, Ju-Liu Books, Taiwan
1997-1999Editor, Bulletin of Sexuality Education,National Central University, Taiwan
1997-1999Editor, Working Papers in Gender/Sexuality Studies,National Central University, Taiwan
1990-presentEditorial Board, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, Taiwan
Publications
Books
2011 Gender/Sexuality Troubles: Rethinking Taiwanese Gender Politics. Tokyo: OchanomizuUniversity. (Forthcoming In Japanese)
2009(Ed.) Queer Soundings. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. (in Chinese)
2008 (Ed.) Taking Pornography Seriously. Co-Edit with Yin-Bin Ning. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. (in Chinese)
2006 (Ed.) The Zoophilia Webpage Incident. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. (in Chinese)
2005Introduction to Politics of Sexuality: Lectures on Sex Rights Movement in Taiwan. Collaborative work with Naifei Ding and Yin-Bin Ning. Chungli: Center for the Study of Sexualities, NCU. (in simplified Chinese)
2007 Reissued in simplified Chinese and with an added new chapter by Yin-Bin Ning, as Lectures on Sex/Gender Studies in Taiwan, Vols. I and II, Beijing: Jiuzhou Press.
2003(Ed.) Trans-gender. Center for the Study of Sexualities, NationalCentralUniversity. (in Chinese)
2003 (Ed.) Sex Work Studies. Center for the Study of Sexualities, NationalCentralUniversity. (in Chinese)
2001(Ed.) Tonzhi (Queer) Studies. Taipei: Chuliu Book Company. (in Chinese)
2001 (Ed.) Sex Work: The Prostitutes’ Rights Perspective. Taipei: Chuliu Book Company. (in Chinese)
2000 (Ed.) Gender/Sexuality Politics and Subject Formations: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Taipei: Rye Fields. (in Chinese)
2000 (Ed.) From Queer Space to Education Space: Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Taipei: Rye Fields. (in Chinese)
1998 Radical Sexuality Education: Gender/Sexuality Education for the "New Generation." Taipei: Meta Media Publishers. (in Chinese)
1998 The Admirable/Amorous Woman. Taipei: Meta Media Publishers. (in Chinese)
1997 (Ed.) Visionary Essays in Sexuality/Gender Studies: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Vols. 1 & 2. Taipei: Meta Media Publishers. (in Chinese)
1997 (Ed.) Contestations Over Female Sexuality: Dissenting Essays on "The Gallant Woman". Taipei: Meta Media Publishers. (in Chinese)
1996 Sexual Moods: A Therapeutic and Liberatory Report on Female Sexuality. Taipei: Living Psychology Publishers. (in Chinese)
2003 Reissued in simplified Chinese under the same title. Beijing: JiouZhou Press, China.
1994 The Gallant Woman--Feminism and Sexual Emancipation. Taipei: Crown Publishers. (in Chinese)
1994 Gendered Nations--Sexuality, Capital and Culture. Taipei: Independent Publishers. (in Chinese)
1990Why They Didn't Want to Tell You--Introduction to Sexual Politics. Co-author with Ka Wei-Bo. Taipei: Fang Zhi Publishers. (in Chinese)
Essays
2010 “Queer Existence under Global Governance: A Taiwan Exemplar,”Positions 18.2: (forthcoming)
2010 “Sentimentalism and Fright: Gender and Class Shifts in Contemporary Taiwanese TattooCulture,”Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 80 (December 2010):forthcoming
2010“Developing Horizon for Contemporary Sex Research and Sex Rights Movement,”International Chinese Sexology Journal 10.1 (2010): 49-51.
2010“Sex Rights in Greater China: 2009,”WACS Newsletter 3.1 (March 2010): 2-8.
2010 “Sex Rights in 2009: A Report on Greater China,”Chinese Sex Rights Research 2 (March 2010): 5-28. (In Chinese)
2009“Defending Conservative Sexual Values: Constitutional Court Interpretations #617 and #623.” Grand Justices! Give Us an Explanation 2: Human Rights Concerns & Constitutional Petitions to the Judicial Yuan. Taipei, Judicial Reform Foundation: 269-290.
2009 “Sex Rights in 2008: A Report on Greater China (Excerpt),”WACS Newsletter 2.1 (March 2009): 2-5.
2009 “Sex Rights in 2008:A Report on Greater China,”Chinese Sex Rights Research1 (March 2009): 5-24. (In Chinese)
2008 “Is Global Governance Bad for East Asian Queers?”GLQ14.4: 457-479.
2008 “Asian Modernity and Its ‘Gendered Vulnerabilities.’” Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Asian Insights 1 (June, 2008): 9-11.
2008 “The Historical Interplay between Sex Revolution, Sex Rights Movement, and the Development of Sexology in Taiwan,”Chinese Sexuality Research 1 (2008): 28-34. (In Chinese)
2007 "Sex Revolution and Sex Rights Movement in Taiwan," in: Jens Damm and Gunter Schubert (eds.), Taiwanese Identity from Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives (Chinese History and Society/Berliner China-Hefte 32/2007), LIT: Münster 2007, pp. 123-139.
2006 “The World of Pornography and Studies in Pornography,”Soochow Journalof Sociology 20 (June 2006): 173-206. (In Chinese)
2006“Sex Work Rights and Sex Industry Regulation,”Sexual Politics, ed. by Yau Jing, Hong Kong: Cosmos, 48-59. (In Chinese)
2006 “Embodying Gender: Trans Body/Subject Formations in Taiwan,”InterAsia Cultural Studies 7.2 (June 2006): 228-242.
2005“From Anti-Trafficking to Social Discipline: Child-Protection NGO’s Pastoral Project,”Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies59 (Sept. 2005): 1-42. (In Chinese)
2005“The Woman Under the Burial Quilt—Death of a Trans Warrior,”Left Curve 29 (2005): 127-128.
2005“From Anti-Trafficking to Social Discipline: Or, The Changing Role of ‘Women’s’ NGOs inTaiwan,”Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights, Edited by Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera, and Bandana Pattanaik. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005. 83-105. (In English)
2005“The Birth of A Crime: Reflections on the Zoophilia Hyperlink Incident,”Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 57 (March 2005): 275-287. (In Chinese)
2005“In Defence of Academic Research and Internet Freedom of Expression,”InterAsia Cultural Studies 6.1 (March 2005): 147-150. (In English)
2004 “Trans-Sexuality: Bisexual Formations and the Limits of Categories.” First read at The Fifth International Super-Slim Conference on the Politics of Gender/Sexuality, Chungli, Taiwan. Journal of Gender Studies(OchanomizuUniversity, Tokyo) 7 (2004): 1-14. (In English)
2003 “Sex/Gender Oppression: Transgender Subjects in Taiwan.” Transgender, ed. by Josephine Ho. Chungli, Taiwan: Center for the Study of Sexualities, Taiwan. 73-122. (In Chinese)
2003 “From Spice Girls to Enjo Kosai: Formations of Teenage Girls’ Sexualities in Taiwan.” InterAsia Journal of Cultural Studies 4.2 (Aug. 2003): 325-336. (In English)
2002“Gender/Sexuality Oppression: Transgendered Subjects in Taiwan.” First read at The Fourth National Convention of Cultural Studies, Tung-haiUniversity, Taichung, Taiwan, Dec. 14-15. Published in Transgender, ed. by Josephine Ho, Taiwan: NationalCentralUniversity, 2003: 73-122. (In Chinese)
2002 “The Embodiment of Identity: Forging the Transgendered Body.” Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 46: 1-44. Published also in Transgender, ed. by Josephine Ho, Taiwan: NationalCentralUniversity, 2003: 1-48 ; and in M. K. Lee & H. B. Ku. (eds),Social Exclusion and Marginality in Chinese Societies, Hong Kong: Centre for Social Policy Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 209-244. (In Chinese)
2001 "Sex, Power and The Newly Emerged Erotic Dance Pubs: A Field Observation. " Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 44 (Dec. 2001): 167-199. (In Chinese)
2001 "Self-Empowerment and Professional Performativity: Conversations with Taiwanese Sex Workers." Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies 41 (March 2001): 1-52。(Complete version,in Chinese)
2000"Self-Empowerment and ‘Professionalization’: Conversations with Taiwanese Sex Workers." InterAsia Cultural Studies 2 (Aug. 2000):283-299. (In English)
2000“Toward a Sexuality Education in the Perspective of Multiculturalism: Education is Sex Education, Sex Education is Education.” (Co-Author with Yin-Bin Ning) From Queer Space to Education Space. Ed. by Josephine Ho. Taipei: Rye Fields. 373-398. (in Chinese)
2000"'Feminist' Perspectives on Sexology." Sexuality in the New Millennium: Proceedings of The 14th World Congress on Sexology. Bologna, Italy: Editrice Compositori. 31-34. (In English)
1998"The Prejudice in Gender/Sexuality Education: The Power Dynamics of Sex Education," Quarterly of Gender Equality Education 3: 68-73。(in Chinese)
1998 "From Left to Queer: The Queering of the American Homosexual Movement." Working Paper in Gender/Sexuality Studies 3-4: 260-299. (in Chinese)
1998 "The Good, the Bad, and the Perverted Sisters: Recent Debates in Taiwanese Feminist Discourse." Problematizing Asia: An InterAsiaCultural Studies Conference. Taipei. (In English)
1998 "A Feminist View of Sex Work." Working Paper in Gender/Sexuality Studies 1-2 (Jan. 1998): 200-239. (in Chinese)
1997 "Towards A Multi-Cultural Perspective in Sexuality Education: Education as Sexuality Education, and Sexuality Education as Education." Co-author with Yin-Bin Ning. From Queer Space to Education Space. Ed. By Josephine Ho. Taipei: Rye Field. 373-398. (in Chinese)
1997 "Sexual Revolution--A Marxist Perspective on One-Hundred Years of American History of Sexualities." Visionary Essays in Sexuality/Gender Studies: Proceedings of the First International Conference On Sexuality Education, Sexology, Trans/Gender Studies and LesBiGay Studies. Ed. By Josephine Ho. Taipei: Meta Media Publishers. 33-99. (in Chinese)
1997 "Sexuality in Contemporary China." 1997: Building a Global Civil Society. Eds. by Lida Nedilsky and Bruce van Voorhis. Hong Kong: July 1 Link, 1997. 94-103. (In English)
1996 "Pornography and Female Sexual Agency." Chung-Wai Literary Monthly 25.4: 6-37. (in Chinese)
1995 "Crisis Discourse and the Study of Literature." Journal of Humanities East/West 13: 107-126. (In English)
1995"It's Difficult for Women to Achieve Sexual Pleasure: The Need for Sexual Emancipation." Taiwan Studies: A Journal of Translations 1.4 (winter 1995-6): 73-86. （English Translation of Chapter 5 from own book The Gallant Woman: Feminism and Sexual Emancipation）
1994 "The McDonaldization of Taiwan--The Cultural Logic of Multi-National Service Industry Capital." Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly of Social Studies 16: 1-20. Collected in Identity and Public Culture, ed. by Chen Qing-Qiau, Hong Kong: OxfordUniversity Press, 1997. 141-160. (in Chinese)
1994 "Feminism and Women's Novels." Taiwan Literary Monthly 5: 7-11. (in Chinese)
1994 "Hope In Place of Knowledge--Rorty's Lectures in Taipei." Contemporary Monthly 94: 22-31. (in Chinese)
1993 "The Locus of Truth/Ideology in the German Debate: A New-Pragmatic Reappraisal of Lukacs, Benjamin, Brecht, and Adorno." Journal of Humanities East/West 11: 125-146. (In English)
1993 "Conversations with Deconstruction--Rorty's Pragmatic Strategy." Chung-Wai Literary Monthly 22.7: 29-44. (in Chinese)
1992 "Richard Rorty and the Literary Culture." Journal of Humanities East-West: 10: 149-164. (In English)
1991 "Another Look at the Spread of English." Journal of Humanities East/West 9: 237-250. (In English)
1991 "Orality and Writing--A Theoretical Reconsideration." Chung-Wai Literary Monthly 19.2: 73-91. (in Chinese)
1991 "A Pluralistic and Open Literature Classroom: Stanley Fish's Pragmatic Pedagogy." Meta-Thinking on Literature. Ed. by Lu Cheng-Huei. Taipei: Zheng Zhong Publishers. 182-204. (in Chinese)
1990 "Subjectivity and Belief: Walter Benn Michaels' Re-Circulation of Classical Pragmatism in the Field of Literary Studies." Journal of Humanities East/West 8: 177-186. (In English)
1990 "From Reader Response to Anti-Theory: Stanley Fish's New Pragmatism." Chung-Wai Literary Monthly 18.12: 86-109. (in Chinese)
1989 "The Quest(ion) of Origin: Freud's Conception of Effectivity." Journal of Humanities East/West 7: 121-30. (In English)
1988 "Talking about Politics is Talking about God--Harvey Cox and Secular Theology." Contemporary Monthly 31: 43-50. (in Chinese)
1987 "The Rise and Fall of Comparative Literature." China Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 15-17. (in Chinese)
1987 "A Criticism of the Criticism Aimed at New Criticism--A Historicist Perspective." Hai-Xia Monthly 5: 78-88. (in Chinese)
1987 "The Dead-End Alley of Feminist Literary Criticism." China Times Literary Supplement Mar. 24-25. (in Chinese)
Book Reviews
2007 Invited Review of Geetanjali Misra and Radhika Chandiramani, eds., Sexuality,Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia, New Delhi: Sage, 2005, in Sexualities 10.3 (July 2007): 389-391.
Invited Lectures
2010.6.22-26“Censorship and Sensibility,”Keynote Speaker, International Communication Association (ICA) 2010 conference, Singapore
2010.6.17-21“Shan-Zhai: Economic/Cultural Production through the Cracks of Globalization.” Plenary Speaker, Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) Crossroads2010 conference, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
2009.8.14-17“SZ Gender/Sexuality: The Unavoidable Horizon of Contemporary Studies of Sexuality,”Plenary Speaker, The First International Conference in Chinese Sexuality, Shu-DeUniversity, Kaoshiung, Taiwan
2009.4.15-18Invited plenary discussant,“Sex Scandal and the Mundane: Response to Lenore Manderson,”7th International IASSCS Conference: Contested Innocence: Sexual Agency in Public and Private Space (organized by the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society IASSCS), Hanoi, Vietnam
2008.7.10 “Is Global Governance Bad for East Asian Queers?” Program in Global Studies, SophiaUniversity, Tokyo
2007.11.29-30 “Sexual Justice Amidst Global Economic Struggle,”Keynote Address, New Feminist Solutions, BarnardCenter for Research on Women, Columbia University, New York, USA
2007.6.3 “Bidding for Vulnerability: Asian Modernity and the Emerging Gender Stance,”Keynote Address, The Second Gendering Asia Conference, Iceland
2007.5.29“Sex Revolution and Sex Rights Movement in Taiwan,” Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen, Denmark
2007.5.25 “Constructing the Transgender,”Keynote Address, Nederlands Transgender Filmfestival (NTGF), De Balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007.5.24“Queer Existence under Global Governance: Or, Is Global Governance Bad for Asian Queers,” Mosse Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006.1.7-8 “People in Trouble: Depression and the Dark Side of Modernity,”Keynote Address, Seventh Annual Convention of Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan, National Central University, Taiwan
2005.7.7-9 “Is Global GovernanceBad for Asian Queers?”Keynote Address, "Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: An International Conference of Asian Queer Studies," Bangkok, Thailand
2005.04.29-30“Queer Existence Under Global Governance: A Taiwan Exemplar,”Keynote Address, “Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics”Conference, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
2004.08.23 “Terror-Filled Sexuality Education,”Keynote Address, Conference on Gender Equity Education, Ministry of Education, Shu-De University, Taiwan
2003.02.20-21, “Cyber Sex: Sexuality, Youth and Cyber Space,”Keynote Address,Asia Pacific Next Generation Camp, Taipei Grand Hyatt
Conference Papers
2009.12.5-6“Shan-Zhai Gender/Sexuality: Module and the Production of Contemporary Gender/Sexuality,” The First Cross-Strait Conference on Gender/Sexuality Deployment, Center for the Study of Sexualities, NationalCentralUniversity, Chungli, Taiwan
2009.01.03-04“Fashion and Fright: The Narrativization ofContemporary Tattoo in Taiwan,”Eighth Annual Convention of Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan, NationalNormalUniversity, Taipei
2008.01.20-22 “The Historical Interplay between Sex Revolution, Sex Rights Movement, and the Development of Sexology in Taiwan,” World Association of Chinese Sexologists (WACS) Conference and First Summit, Shen-Zheng, China (In Chinese)
2007.12.14-15 "Sex Revolution and Sex Rights Movement in Taiwan,"A Roundtable:Chinese Gender/Sexuality in 21st Century, Hong KongShueYanUniversity
2006.05.26-28 “Life of a Parasite: A Survival Story of Cultural Studies,” International Conference on Cultural Studies and Institution, Ling-NanUniversity, Hong Kong
2005.7.22-24 “Embodying Gender: Transgenderism in Taiwan,” InterAsia Cultural Studies Conference, Seoul, Korea
2004.11.12-13“Groping for Language & Getting to Know Lives: Interviewing Stigmatized Subjects,” Doing Oral History in Chinese Society,University of Hong Kong.
2004.08.23 “Sex and Power,” 2nd Asian Congress of Sexuality Education, Shu-De University, Taiwan
2004.07.07-11“From Anti-Trafficking to Social Discipline: Or, The Changing Role of ‘Women’s NGOs in Taiwan,” 36th International Institute of Sociology, Beijing
2004.05.22 “Gender/Sexuality Oppression and the Gay Culture,” Conference on Gay Counseling, Soochow University, Taiwan
2004.05.21 “Sex Work Rights and Regulation of Sex Industry,” Conference on the Sex Industry and Ethics, Tamkang University, Taiwan
2004.05.02 “The Long Road toward Decriminalization of Sex Work in Taiwan,” Out in the Sun: Legal Constraints and Possibilities in Protecting the Rights of Sex Workers, An International Conference on the Sex Industry and Sex Workers’ Rights, City University of Hong Kong in collaboration with Ziteng, Hong Kong
2004.04.23-24“Gender Embodiment: Transgender Body-Subject Formation in Taiwan,” Problematizing Global Knowledge: Towards a New Encyclopaedia for a Global Knowledge Archive, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2003.07.04 “The Em[bodi]ment of Identity: Constructing the Transgender,”Institute of Gender Studies, OchanomizuUniversity, Tokyo, Japan
2003.06.27 “From Anti-Trafficking to Social Discipline,”Institute of Gender Studies, OchanomizuUniversity, Tokyo, Japan
2003.06.18 “From Spice Girls to Enjo-Kosai: Formation of Teenage Girls’ Sexuality in East Asia,”Institute of Gender Studies, OchanomizuUniversity, Tokyo, Japan
2003.06.04 “Self-Empowerment and Professional Performativity in Sex Work,”Institute of Gender Studies, OcanomizuUniversity, Tokyo, Japan
2003.05.28 “Pornography and Female Sexual Agency,” Institute of Gender Studies, OchanomizuUniversity, Tokyo, Japan
2001.11.02 “From Spice Girls to Enjo Kosai: Formations of Teenage Girls’ Sexualities in Taiwan.” International Conference on Teenage Girls' Sexualities and Sex Work in East Asia, Yonsei University, Korea.
2000.08.26 "Sex Liberation and Its Impact on Feminism of Taiwan." Workshop on Feminism,Hong KongPolytechnicUniversity