Transnational Asia Pacific: Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere
 
 

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (Editor) Wimal Dissanayake (Editor) Larry E. Smith (Editor) bn.com Price: $14.95  In-Stock: Ships within 24 hours  Format: Paperback, 208pp. ISBN: 0252068092 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: November 1999 Other Formats: Hardcove

ABOUT THE BOOK

From The Publisher
   This timely collection provides a critical transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global! capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region. Geographically, this vast territory encompasses Japan, the newly industrialized states of East Asia and China, the Southeast Asian countries, Australia, New Zealand, the South Sea Islands, and the Pacific coast of North America. Culturally and conceptually, its reach is even more extensive.
     Departing from the exclusive focus on economic and political issues that has dominated analyses of the region, Transnational Asia Pacific assesses the relation of gender to development, education, and culture. Contributors explore the psychosocial and linguistic processes through which women's selves are constructed, the role of popular culture and mass media in shaping new female identities, and the consequences for men's and women's lives of the state's response to modernization and global capitalism.
     Cutting to the heart of key cultural issues, Transnational Asia Pacific advances our understanding of the dynamics of cultural globalization and their impacts on Asian social communities.
 

From the Book
Contents
    Introduction
    Posit(ion)ing Human Rights in the Current Global Conjuncture
    Bodies, Letters, Catalogs: Filipinas in Transnational Space
    The West's "Comfort Women" and the Discourses of Seduction
    Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Asia/Pacific - from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge
    Representing the "New" Asia: Dick Lee, Pop Music, and a Singapore Modern
    Killing Motherhood as Institution and Reclaiming Motherhood as Experience: Japanese Women Writers,                 1970s-90s
    The Melting Pot of Assimilation: Cannibalizing the Multicultural Body
    Dropping the Towel: Images of the Body in Contemporary Thai Women's Writing
    Contributors
    Index