Sarker / De Trans-Status Subjects

Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8423-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarker, Sonita

De, Esha Niyogi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Levine, Philippa

Perera, Nihal

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.