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Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Wimal Dissanayake
• Posit(ion)ing human rights in the current global conjuncture / Pheng Cheah
• Bodies, letters, catalogs: Filipinas in transnational space / Rolando B. Tolentino
• The West's "comfort women" and the discourses of seduction / Lynn Thiesmeyer
• Bloody Mary meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: imagining Asia/Pacific, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge / Rob Wilson
• Representing the "new" Asia: Dick Lee, pop music, and a Singapore modern / C.J. W.-L. Wee
• Killing motherhood as institution and reclaiming motherhood as experience: Japanese women writers, 1970s-90s / Fukuko Kobayashi
• The melting pot of assimilation: cannibalizing the multicultural body / Sneja Gunew
• Dropping the towel : images of the body in contemporary Thai women's writing / Susan Fulop Kepner.

Contributors:

Lim, Shirley

Smith, Larry E.

Dissanayake, Wimal

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Sex role — Southeast Asia

Sex role — East Asia

Sex role — Pacific Area

Politics and culture — Southeast Asia

Politics and culture — East Asia

Politics and culture — Pacific Area

Human rights — Southeast Asia

Human rights — East Asia

Human rights — Pacific Area

Sex role

Politics and culture

Human rights

Pacific Area

Southeast Asia

East Asia

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

HQ1075.5.A785 T73 1999

ISBNs:

0252024923 (hbk, acid-free paper)
0252068092 (pbk., acid-free paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

99006055

OCLC Numbers:

40716547