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Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific : Method, Practice, Theory / ed. by Monique Mironesco, Kathy E. Ferguson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (407 p.) : 1 b&w image, 1 line drawingContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824831592
  • 9780824862626
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48895
LOC classification:
  • HQ1240.5.A78 G46 2008
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: 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. Although the book focuses on global, gendered flows, it expands its investigation to include the media and the arts, intellectual resources, activist agendas, and individual life stories. First-rate ethnographies and interviews reach beyond generalizations and bring Pacific and Asian women and men alive in their struggles against globalization.Globalization cannot be summed up in a neat political agenda but must be actively contested and creatively negotiated. Taking feminist political thinking beyond simple oppositions, the authors ask specific questions about how global practices work, how they come to be, who benefits, and what is at stake.Contributors: Nancie Caraway, Steve Derné, Cynthia Enloe, Kathy Ferguson, Maria Ibarra, Gwyn Kirk, Sally Merry, Virginia Metaxas, Min Dongchao, Monique Mironesco, Rhacel Parrenas, Lucinda Peach, Vivian Price, Jyoti Puri, Judith Raiskin, Nancy Riley, Saskia Sassen, Teresia Teaiwa, Chris Yano, Yau Ching.
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Frontmatter -- 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

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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. Although the book focuses on global, gendered flows, it expands its investigation to include the media and the arts, intellectual resources, activist agendas, and individual life stories. First-rate ethnographies and interviews reach beyond generalizations and bring Pacific and Asian women and men alive in their struggles against globalization.Globalization cannot be summed up in a neat political agenda but must be actively contested and creatively negotiated. Taking feminist political thinking beyond simple oppositions, the authors ask specific questions about how global practices work, how they come to be, who benefits, and what is at stake.Contributors: Nancie Caraway, Steve Derné, Cynthia Enloe, Kathy Ferguson, Maria Ibarra, Gwyn Kirk, Sally Merry, Virginia Metaxas, Min Dongchao, Monique Mironesco, Rhacel Parrenas, Lucinda Peach, Vivian Price, Jyoti Puri, Judith Raiskin, Nancy Riley, Saskia Sassen, Teresia Teaiwa, Chris Yano, Yau Ching.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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