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Trans-status subjects : gender in the globalization of South and Southeast Asia / edited by Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Sarker, Sonita, 1961-
De, Esha Niyogi.
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sex role--South Asia.
Sex role.
Sex role--Southeast Asia.
Globalization.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Essays consider the relationship of gender, time, and space to globalization, describing conditions under which South and Southeast Asians can resist the attempted erasure of their spaces and histories.
Contents:
Designing woman, designing North Borneo / Susan Morgan
The Cordon Sanitaire: mobility and space in the regulation of colonial prostitution / Philippa Levine
Feminizing the city: gender and space in colonial Columbo / Nihal Perera
Failure of the imaginary: gendered excess of the Indonesian nation / Sylvia Tiwon
Gender, paradoxical space, and critical spectatorship in Vietnamese film: the works of Dang Nhat Minh / Kathryn McMahon
Traveling high and low: verticality, social position, and the making of Pahari genders / Karen K. Gaul
Nurturing, gender ideologies, and Bangkok's foodscape / Gisele Yasmeen
Place and displacement: figuring the Thai village in an age of rural development / Andrew McRae
The city between the global state: architecture and the people in Singapore's gendered imaginations / Esha Niyogi De
South Asian women in the gulf: families and futures reconfigured / Karen Leonard
Diasporic alienness and belonging: selected Indian-American cultural expressions / Ketu H. Katrak
Jewish diaspora through colonial spaces: negotiating identity and forging community / Jael Silliman
Unruly subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa / Sonita Sarker
Immigrant dreams and nightmares: South Asian domestic workers in North America in a time of global mobility / Anannya Bhattacharjee.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-332) and index.
ISBN:
1-282-92048-0
9786612920486
0-8223-8423-X
OCLC:
850217574

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