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Book SynopsisEssays 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.
Trade Review“This collection brings together an astonishingly wide variety of original research about the problem of globalization and the relationship of gender, time, and space to it. Focusing on ‘embodied subjects’ in diverse locations and shifting grounds allows the authors to excavate conditions—cultural, political, socioeconomic—under which the people they are writing about become what the editors call ‘trans-status subjects.’”—Antoinette Burton, author of
At the Heart of the Empire“This valuable anthology gathers together feminist perspectives on gender, postcolonial critique, and critiques of Western modernity, and the considerable work on global capitalism and transnationalism. The work is theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich, intervening in the discussions of women, colonial and neocolonial modernity, and globalization with respect to South Asian and Southeast Asian women and locales.”—Lisa Lowe, author of
Immigrant ActsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
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