Gender and globalization in Asia and the Pacific : method, practice, theory / edited by Kathy E. Ferguson and Monique Mironesco.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-397) and index.

Foreword: Knowledge Practices and Subject-making / Saskia Sassen -- Ch. 1. Introduction / Kathy E. Ferguson, Sally Engle Merry and Monique Mironesco -- I. Confronting Colonial Discourses -- Ch. 2. Telling Tales Out of School: Sia Figiel and Indigenous Knowledge in Pacific Islands Literature / Judith Raiskin -- Ch. 3. "Licentiousness has slain its hundreds of thousands": The Missionary Discourse of Sex, Death, and Disease in Nineteenth-century Hawai'i / Virginia Metaxas -- II. Cultural Translations -- Ch. 4. Gay Sexualities and Complicities: Rethinking the Global Gay / Jyoti Puri -- Ch. 5. "What about Other Translation Routes (East-West)?" The Concept of the Term "Gender" Traveling into and throughout China / Min Dongchao -- III. Media -- Ch. 6. Gaze Upon Sakura: Imaging Japanese Americans on Japanese TV / Christine R. Yano -- Ch. 7. Globalizing Gender Culture: Transnational Cultural Flows and the Intensification of Male Dominance in India / Steve Derne -- Ch. 8. Performing Contradictions, Performing Bad-Girlness in Japan / Yau Ching -- IV. Labor, Migration, and Families -- Ch. 9. The Social Imaginary and Kin Recruitment: Mexican Women Reshaping Domestic Work / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Ch. 10. Breaking the Code: Women, Labor Migration, and the 1987 Family Code of the Republic of the Philippines / Rhacel Salazar Parrenas -- Ch. 11. Headloads: The Technologizing of Work and the Gendering of Labor / Vivian Price -- Ch. 12. Gender and Modernity in a Chinese Economic Zone / Nancy E. Riley -- V. Trafficking -- Ch. 13. Female Sex Slavery or Just Women's Work? Prostitution and Female Subjectivity within Anti-trafficking Discourses / Lucinda Joy Peach -- Ch. 14. "Do No Harm": The Asian Female Migrant and Feminist Debates in the Global Anti-trafficking Movement / Nancie Caraway -- VI. Militarization -- Ch. 15. Gender, Globalization, and Militarization: An Interview with Cynthia Enloe / Kathy E. Ferguson, Gwyn Kirk and Monique Mironesco -- Ch. 16. Environmental Effects of U.S. Military Security: Gendered Experiences from the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan / Gwyn Kirk -- Ch. 17. Globalizing and Gendered Forces: The Contemporary Militarization of Pacific/Oceania / Teresia K. Teaiwa -- VII. Conclusion -- Ch. 18. Advancing Feminist Thinking on Globalization / Kathy E. Ferguson and Monique Mironesco.

"What is globalization? How is it gendered? How does it work in Asia and the Pacific? The authors of the sixteen original and innovative essays presented here take fresh stock of globalization's complexities. They pursue critical feminist inquiry about women, gender, and sexualities and produce original insights into changing life patterns in Asian and Pacific Island societies." "Each essay puts the lives and struggles of women at the center of its examination while weaving examples of global circuits in Asian and Pacific societies into a world frame of analysis. The work is generated from within Asian and Pacific spaces, bringing to the fore local voices and claims to knowledge. The geographic emphasis on Asia/Pacific highlights the complexity of globalizing practices among specific people whose dilemmas come alive on these pages."--BOOK JACKET.

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