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