Transnational Asia Pacific : gender, culture, and the public sphere /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lim, Shirley, Smith, Larry E., Dissanayake, Wimal
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999]
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.

Table of 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.