Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma

Informationen zum Autor Chie Ikeya is assistant professor in the Southeast Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore. Klappentext Presents the first study of one of the most prevalent and critical topics of public discourse in colonial Burma: the woman of the khit kala—"the woman of the times”—who burst onto the covers and pages of novels, newspapers, and advertisements in the 1920s. Zusammenfassung Presents the first study of one of the most prevalent and critical topics of public discourse in colonial Burma: the woman of the khit kala—“the woman of the times”—who burst onto the covers and pages of novels, newspapers, and advertisements in the 1920s.

Product details

• Authors: Chie Ikeya
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2011
• EAN: 9780824834616
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3461-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean; Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research