Transnational Asia Pacific : gender, culture, and the public sphere / edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Larry E. Smith, and Wimal Dissanayake ; with the assistance of Laura Scott Holliday.

Other author Lim, Shirley.
Other author Smith, Larry E.
Other author Dissanayake, Wimal.
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1999.
Description192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Sex role--Southeast Asia.
Sex role--East Asia.
Sex role--Pacific Area.
Politics and culture--Southeast Asia.
Politics and culture--East Asia.
Politics and culture--Pacific Area.
Human rights--Southeast Asia.
Human rights--East Asia.
Human rights--Pacific Area.

Contents Introduction / Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Wimal Dissanayake -- Posit(ion)ing human rights in the current global conjuncture / Pheng Cheah -- Bodies, letters, catalogs: Filipinas in transnational space / Rolando B. Tolentino -- The West's "comfort women" and the discourses of seduction / Lynn Thiesmeyer -- Bloody Mary meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: imagining Asia/Pacific, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge / Rob Wilson -- Representing the "new" Asia: Dick Lee, pop music, and a Singapore modern / C.J. W.-L. Wee -- Killing motherhood as institution and reclaiming motherhood as experience: Japanese women writers, 1970s-90s / Fukuko Kobayashi -- The melting pot of assimilation: cannibalizing the multicultural body / Sneja Gunew -- Dropping the towel : images of the body in contemporary Thai women's writing / Susan Fulop Kepner.
General note"An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99006055
ISBN0252024923 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0252068092 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1075.5.A785 T73 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold