Transnational Asia Pacific
Subtitle: Gender, Culture, and the Public Sphere
Contributors: Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Editor); Larry E Smith (Editor); Wimal Dissanayake (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 6, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780252024924
Subjects: Cultural studies; Gender Studies; Culture; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); Social Science; Sociology; ASIA; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Sociology - General; Asia, Southeastern; East Asia; Pacific Area; Politics and culture; Sex role; Southeast Asia
First sentence: IN THE CURRENT CONJUNCTURE of global capitalism, the deployment of human rights discourse by various key actors on the stage of Asia Pacific international relations takes the general form of a performative contradiction.