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Introduction: Marking Times and Territories 1: Figuring Genders in Colony and Nation: Native and Foreign Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo Susan Morgan The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution (British Burma, Hong Kong, Singapore) Philippa Levine Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Columbo Nihal Perera Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation Sylvia Tiwon Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh Kathryn McMahon 2: Transporting Genders Between Village and City: Representations and Resistances Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of Pahari Genders Karen Gaul Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok's Foodscapes GiseleYasmeen Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village Andrew McRae The City Between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore's Gendered Imaginations Esha Niyogi 3; Gendering Local-Global Circuits: Labor, Capital, and Subjects of Social Change South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured Karen Leonard Diasporic Belonging and Alienness: Selected Indian American Cultural Expression Ketu Katrak Jewish Diaspora in Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community Jael Silliman Unruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa Sonita Sarker Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility Anannya Bhattacharjee Contributor's Addresses and E-Mails
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Sonita Sarker is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.Esha Niyogi De teaches English and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Riassunto
Essays consider the relationship of gender, time, and space to globalization, describing conditions under which South and Southeast Asians can resist the attempted erasure of their spaces and histories.
