Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific: Method, Practice, Theory 9780824862626
What is globalization? How is it gendered? How does it work in Asia and the Pacific? The authors of the sixteen original
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Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword: Knowledge Practices and Subject-making
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. Confronting Colonial Discourses
Chapter 2. Telling Tales Out of School: Sia Figiel and Indigenous Knowledge in Pacific Islands Literature
Chapter 3. “Licentiousness has slain its hundreds of thousands”: The Missionary Discourse of Sex, Death, and Disease in Nineteenth-century Hawai‘i
Part II. Cultural Translations
Chapter 4. Gay Sexualities and Complicities: Rethinking the Global Gay
Chapter 5. “What about Other Translation Routes (East-West)?” The Concept of the Term “Gender” Traveling into and throughout China
Part III. Media
Chapter 6. Gaze Upon Sakura: Imaging Japanese Americans on Japanese TV
Chapter 7. Globalizing Gender Culture: Transnational Cultural Flows and the Intensification of Male Dominance in India
Chapter 8. Performing Contradictions, Performing Bad-Girlness in Japan
Part IV. Labor, Migration, and Families
Chapter 9. The Social Imaginary and Kin Recruitment: Mexican Women Reshaping Domestic Work
Chapter 10. Breaking the Code: Women, Labor Migration, and the 1987 Family Code of the Republic of the Philippines
Chapter 11. Headloads: The Technologizing of Work and the Gendering of Labor
Chapter 12. Gender and Modernity in a Chinese Economic Zone
Part V. Trafficking
Chapter 13. Female Sex Slavery or Just Women’s Work? Prostitution and Female Subjectivity within Anti-trafficking Discourses
Chapter 14. “Do No Harm”: The Asian Female Migrant and Feminist Debates in the Global Anti-trafficking Movement
Chapter 15. Gender, Globalization, and Militarization: An Interview with Cynthia Enloe
Chapter 16. Environmental Effects of U.S. Military Security: Gendered Experiences from the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan
Chapter 17. Globalizing and Gendered Forces: The Contemporary Militarization of Pacific/Oceania
Part VII. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Advancing Feminist Thinking on Globalization
References
Contributors
Index
