Transnational Asia Pacific
Subtitle: gender, culture, and the public sphere
By: edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Larry E. Smith, and Wimal Dissanayake ; with the assistance of Laura Scott Holliday.
Contributors: Lim, Shirley.; Smith, Larry E.; Dissanayake, Wimal.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Sex role -- Asia, Southeastern.; Sex role -- East Asia.; Sex role -- Pacific Area.; Politics and culture -- Asia, Southeastern.; Politics and culture -- East Asia.; Politics and culture -- Pacific Area.; Human rights -- Asia, Southeastern.; Human rights -- East Asia.; Human rights -- Pacific Area.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Wimal Dissanayake; title: Posit(ion)ing human rights in the current global conjuncture / Pheng Cheah; title: Bodies, letters, catalogs : Filipinas in transnational space / Rolando B. Tolentino; title: The West's "comfort women" and the discourses of seduction / Lynn Thiesmeyer; title: Bloody Mary meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka : imagining Asia/Pacific, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge / Rob Wilson; title: Representing the "new" Asia : Dick Lee, pop music, and a Singapore modern / C.J.W.-L. Wee; title: Killing motherhood as institution and reclaiming motherhood as experience : Japanese women  writers, 1970s-90s / Fukuko Kobayashi; title: The melting pot of  assimilation : cannibalizing the multicultural body / Sneja Gunew; title: Dropping the towel : images of the body in contemporary Thai women's writing / Susan Fulop Kepner.