{"product_id":"transstatus-subjects-gender-in-the-globalization-of-south-and-southeast-asia-9780822329923","title":"TransStatus Subjects  Gender in the Globalization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssays 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eAt the Heart of the Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eImmigrant Acts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Marking Times and Territories \/ Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De \u003cbr\u003e I. Figuring Genders in the Colony and Nation: Native and Foreign \u003cbr\u003e Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo \/ Susan Morgan \u003cbr\u003e The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution \/ Philippa Levine \u003cbr\u003e Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Columbo \/ Nihal Perera\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation \/ Sylvia Tiwon \u003cbr\u003e Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh \/ Kathryn McMahon \u003cbr\u003e II. Transporting Genders Between the Village and City: Representations and Resistances \u003cbr\u003e Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of \u003ci\u003ePahari\u003c\/i\u003e Genders \/ Karen K. Gaul \u003cbr\u003e Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok’s Foodscape \/ Gisèle Yasmeen \u003cbr\u003e Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village in an Age of Rural Development \/ Andrew McRae \u003cbr\u003e The City between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore’s Gendered Imaginations \/ Esha Niyogi De \u003cbr\u003e III. Gendering Local-Global Circuits: Labor, Capital, and Subjects of Social Change \u003cbr\u003e South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured \/ Karen Leonard \u003cbr\u003e Diasporic Alienness and Belonging: Selected Indian-American Cultural Expressions \/ Ketu H. Katrak \u003cbr\u003e Jewish Diaspora through Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community \/ Jael Silliman \u003cbr\u003e Unruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa \/ Sonita Sarker \u003cbr\u003e Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility \/ Anannya Bhattacharjee \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406031233367,"sku":"9780822329923","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transstatus-subjects-gender-in-the-globalization-of-south-and-southeast-asia-9780822329923","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}