Research Catalog

Title

New girl law : drafting a future for Cambodia / Anne Elizabeth Moore.

Author

Moore, Anne Elizabeth

Publication

Portland, OR : Cantankerous Titles, an imprint of Microcosm Publishing, 2013.

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Description

123 pages; 18 cm

Summary

"When Moore, a writer and independent publisher, brought her experience in the American cultural underground to Cambodia on the cusp of the global economic meltdown, she intended to share a skill that would allow young people the opportunity to archive their own stories. Instead, the second generation of Khmer Rouge survivors she worked with ended up rewriting history. The Cambodian Chbap Srei is a 17th-century book that intended to establish a code of conduct for young women. Staunchly traditional, but repressive and frustrating, the first large group of young women in Cambodia decide to rewrite it with Moore. The year-long process culminates in a grand discussion of human rights and gender equity, and a hand-bound book for all participants. Tragically, the completed book was banned and censored in both Cambodia and the U.S. But what these bold young women learn next about when they are allowed to speak, and to whom, is chilling." -- Publisher's description.

Subject

• Riot grrrl movement
• Feminism > Cambodia
• Feminism
• Riot grrrl movement
• Women
• Cambodia > Women
• Cambodia

Note

• Part 2 of a 4 part unnamed series. Part 1 in the series is Cambodian Grrrl: Self-publishing in Phnom Penh.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue -- Ryna: it is also about the war -- Rewriting the rules -- Jorani: the communists won -- Chbap Srei Tmein -- Lili: I think that this world it makes me die already -- New girl laws -- Sotheary: the other thing is sexuality in Phnom Penh -- Field trip -- Nobody miss you -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Cambodian Grrrl book note (from Largehearted Boy) -- Appendix B: New girl laws (Chbap Srei Tmein)

ISBN

• 9781621064626
• 162106462X

OCLC

785874365

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library