ABSTRACT
The ‘transnational turn’ in sexuality studies that started in the late 1990s has meant greater attention being paid to global mobility, the multiplicity of sexualities and gender identities, and the tensions between the universalisation of rhetoric and the diversity of queer experiences. As I. Grewal and C. Kaplan have pointed out, the term transnational is very useful for addressing the power asymmetries of globalisation processes, including inequalities left over from colonisation and new ones generated by contemporary globalisation processes. The major contribution of sexuality studies to the earlier phase of contemporary globalisation included the introduction of notions of identity and rights to sexuality and the challenge which sexuality studies presented to the heteronormativity and masculinism inherent in globalisation. In recent decades, research on sexuality in the context of transnationalism and globalisation has proliferated. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts in this book.
