Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific

Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific

Method, Practice, Theory

Edited by: Kathy E. Ferguson and Monique Mironesco

University of Hawaii Press | 2008

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824862626

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What is globalization? How is it gendered? How does it work in Asia and the Pacific? The authors of the sixteen original and innovative essays presented here take fresh stock of globalization’s complexities. They pursue critical feminist inquiry about women, gender, and sexualities and produce original insights into changing life patterns in Asian and Pacific Island societies.

Each essay puts the lives and struggles of women at the center of its examination while weaving examples of global circuits in Asian and Pacific societies into a world frame of analysis. The work is generated from within Asian and Pacific spaces, bringing to the fore local voices and claims to knowledge. The geographic emphasis on Asia/Pacific highlights the complexity of globalizing practices among specific people whose dilemmas come alive on these pages. Although the book focuses on global, gendered flows, it expands its investigation to include the media and the arts, intellectual resources, activist agendas, and individual life stories. First-rate ethnographies and interviews reach beyond generalizations and bring Pacific and Asian women and men alive in their struggles against globalization.

Globalization cannot be summed up in a neat political agenda but must be actively contested and creatively negotiated. Taking feminist political thinking beyond simple oppositions, the authors ask specific questions about how global practices work, how they come to be, who benefits, and what is at stake.

Contributors: Nancie Caraway, Steve Derné, Cynthia Enloe, Kathy Ferguson, Maria Ibarra, Gwyn Kirk, Sally Merry, Virginia Metaxas, Min Dongchao, Monique Mironesco, Rhacel Parrenas, Lucinda Peach, Vivian Price, Jyoti Puri, Judith Raiskin, Nancy Riley, Saskia Sassen, Teresia Teaiwa, Chris Yano, Yau Ching.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Foreword: Knowledge Practices and Subject-making Saskia Sassen Free access PDF PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Free access PDF PDF	xi
Chapter 1. Introduction Kathy Ferguson, Sally Engle Merry and Monique Mironesco Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Part I. Confronting Colonial Discourses
Chapter 2. Telling Tales Out of School: Sia Figiel and Indigenous Knowledge in Pacific Islands Literature Judith Raiskin Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	15
Chapter 3. “Licentiousness has slain its hundreds of thousands”: The Missionary Discourse of Sex, Death, and Disease in Nineteenth-century Hawai‘i Virginia Metaxas Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	37
Part II. Cultural Translations
Chapter 4. Gay Sexualities and Complicities: Rethinking the Global Gay Jyoti Puri Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	59
Chapter 5. “What about Other Translation Routes (East-West)?” The Concept of the Term “Gender” Traveling into and throughout China Min Dongchao Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	79
Part III. Media
Chapter 6. Gaze Upon Sakura: Imaging Japanese Americans on Japanese TV Christine Yano Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	101
Chapter 7. Globalizing Gender Culture: Transnational Cultural Flows and the Intensification of Male Dominance in India Steve Derné Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	121
Chapter 8. Performing Contradictions, Performing Bad-Girlness in Japan Yau Ching Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	138
Part IV. Labor, Migration, and Families
Chapter 9. The Social Imaginary and Kin Recruitment: Mexican Women Reshaping Domestic Work Maria de la Luz Ibarra Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	161
Chapter 10. Breaking the Code: Women, Labor Migration, and the 1987 Family Code of the Republic of the Philippines Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	176
Chapter 11. Headloads: The Technologizing of Work and the Gendering of Labor Vivian Price Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	195
Chapter 12. Gender and Modernity in a Chinese Economic Zone Nancy Riley Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	213
Part V. Trafficking
Chapter 13. Female Sex Slavery or Just Women’s Work? Prostitution and Female Subjectivity within Anti-trafficking Discourses Lucinda Joy Peach Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	233
Chapter 14. “Do No Harm”: The Asian Female Migrant and Feminist Debates in the Global Anti-trafficking Movement Nancie Caraway Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	253
Chapter 15. Gender, Globalization, and Militarization: An Interview with Cynthia Enloe Kathy Ferguson, Gwyn Kirk and Monique Mironesco Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	275
Chapter 16. Environmental Effects of U.S. Military Security: Gendered Experiences from the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan Gwyn Kirk Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	294
Chapter 17. Globalizing and Gendered Forces: The Contemporary Militarization of Pacific/Oceania Teresia Teaiwa Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	318
Part VII. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Advancing Feminist Thinking on Globalization Kathy Ferguson and Monique Mironesco Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	335
References Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	359
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	399
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	403

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