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

Other author Sarker, Sonita, 1961-
Other author De, Esha Niyogi.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxii, 344 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Sex role--South Asia.
Sex role--Southeast Asia.
Globalization.

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 / Gisèle 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-332) and index.
LCCN 2002006948
ISBN0822329557 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822329921 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1075.5.S64 T73 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold