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Book SynopsisGendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.
Table of ContentsPart I: Gendering the Trans-Pacific 1. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 2. Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives, by Denise Cruz 3. The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World, by Karen J. Leong Part II: Geographies of Empire 4. Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898–1921, by Tessa Ong Winkelmann 5. A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel: The Sino-Japanese War and the Gendered Internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo, by Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves 6. Moving Within Empires: Korean Women and Trans-Pacific Migration, by Ji-Yeon Yuh 7. Re-franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific, by Rumi Yasutake 8. Currencies of U.S. Empire in Hawaiʻi’s Tourism and Prison Industries, by Liza Keānuenueokalani Williams Part III: Intimacies and Affect 9. The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje: Colonial Tropes of the Filipina/o, by Gladys Nubla 10. “Ashamed of Certain Japanese”: The Politics of Affect in Japanese Women’s Immigration Exclusion, 1919–1924, by Chrissy Yee Lau 11. Gendered Adoptee Identities: Performing Trans-Pacific Masculinity in the 21st Century, by Kimberly McKee 12. Up in the Air: Circuits of Transnational Asian and Asian American Mothering, by Miliann Kang Part IV: Beauty and the Body 13. Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests, by Genevieve Clutario 14. “Golden Lilies” across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws, by Fang He 15. Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific, by Laura C. Nelson 16. Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship: Human Trafficking in Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s From Busan to San Francisco and Mark Kalesniko’s Mail Order Bride, by Stella Oh Part V: Culture and Circulation 17. Performing between Two Empires: Colonial Modernity and the Racialized Politics of Filipino Masculinity in Okinawa and Japan, by Nobue Suzuki 18. A Careful Embrace: Race, Gender, and the Consumption of Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific in Mid-Century Los Angeles, by Shawn Schwaller 19. We Are Pacific Men, by Craig Santos Perez 20. Gendering the K-Vampire, by Hyungji Park 21. Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens: The Cinemas of Vietnam and the Diaspora, by Lan Duong
