Reading gender
Subtitle: postmodernism, body and marginality
By: edited by Yasushi Uchiyamada.
Contributors: Uchiyamada, Yasushi.; Kokusai Kaihatsu Kodōkyōiku Kikō
Publisher: International Development Research Institute, Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects.; Feminist theory.; Postmodernism.
Notes: Cover title.

"March 1997."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reading gender: postmodernism, body and marginality / Yasushi Uchiyamada; title: Subject and power / Michel Foucault; title: Postmodernism and gender relations in feminist theory / Jane Flax; title: Contingent foundations: feminism and the "question of postmodernism" / Judith Butler; title: Writing against culture / Lila Abu-Lughod; title: Images of the body and sexuality in women's narratives on oppression in the home / Meenakshi Thapan; title: Hype and weight / Mark Nichter and Mini Nichter; title: Sexual inversions / Judith Butler; title: State versus Islam: Malay families [,] women's bodies, and the body politic in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong; title: Our name is women: we are bought with limesticks and limepots: an analysis of the autobiographical narrative of a Kalauna women [sic] / Michael Young; title: Politics of textual vehemence, or go to your room until you learn how to act / Barbara Tomlinson; title: M. Butterfly: orientalism, gender and a critique of essentialist identity / Dorinne K. Kondo; title: Two beautiful untouchable women / Yasushi Uchiyamada.