Trans-Status Subjects
Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2002
360 pages
978-0-8223-8423-6 (ISBN)
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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.
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Sonita Sarker | Esha Niyogi De
Trans-Status Subjects
Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
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11/2002
Duke University Press
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Sonita Sarker | Esha Niyogi De
Trans-Status Subjects
Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
Book
11/2002
Duke University Press
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Sonita Sarker is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.Esha Niyogi De teaches English and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Marking Times and Territories / Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De
I. Figuring Genders in the Colony and Nation: Native and Foreign
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
II. Transporting Genders Between the Village and City: Representations and Resistances
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
III. Gendering Local-Global Circuits: Labor, Capital, and Subjects of Social Change
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
Contributors
Index
Introduction: Marking Times and Territories / Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De
I. Figuring Genders in the Colony and Nation: Native and Foreign
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
II. Transporting Genders Between the Village and City: Representations and Resistances
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
III. Gendering Local-Global Circuits: Labor, Capital, and Subjects of Social Change
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
Contributors
Index
