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

Title
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.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Lim, Shirley.
  • Smith, Larry E.
  • Dissanayake, Wimal.
Description
192 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • 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
Note
  • "An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 99-14846
ISBN
  • 0252024923 (acid-free paper)
  • 0252068092 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
99006055
OCLC
40716547
Title
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.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Lim, Shirley.
Smith, Larry E.
Dissanayake, Wimal.
Research Call Number
JFE 99-14846
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