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Gender and Modernity
Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific
300 pages
ISBN: 9784876984527
pub. date: 02/03
Written Language: English
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Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology examines the complexities of identity formation and self-positioning in post-colonial contexts, ranging from the impact of Christian missionaries on the women of Aboriginal Australia to the re-masculinization of post-colonial subjects in Eastern India, from the negotiation of gendered spaces in Indonesia and Thailand to the ways in which Japanese popular culture 'plays' with gender identities. Focusing in particular on the negotiation of gender categories, these papers reveal that local actors are confronted with the competing values and rationalities of local traditions and global modernity.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gender and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific
Akio Tanabe and Yumiko Tokita
1. Legacies of the Mission: Christian ideals and gender
Sachiko Kubota
2. Becoming a 'Female Citizen' in Colonial Kerala
Toshie Awaya
3. Power, Culture and Masculinity in (Post-)Colonial Orissa, India
Akio Tanabe
4. Uncovering the 'domestic': gender, modernity, and the division of reproductive labor in Bali
Ayami Nakatani
5. 'Source' and 'Home': Gender and Contemporary Lifeworlds in Central Flores, Southeast Indonesia
Eriko Aoki
6. Reorganizing and Traversing Space: Women in the Peripheries of Thailand
Yoko Hayami
7. Aesthetics of the Female Self: Modernity and Cultural Agency of Urban Middle-class Women in Orissa
Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe
8. Constructing Male Aesthetics in Rock and Makeup: Gender Strategies by Musicians and Fans of Visual Rock in Japan
Takako Inoue
9. (De-)Sexualizing Gender Relationships: Sexual Harassment as Modern and as a Critique of Modernity
Ichiro Numazaki
Epilogue: From Modernity and Beyond
Yoko Hayami
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Gender and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific
Akio Tanabe and Yumiko Tokita
1. Legacies of the Mission: Christian ideals and gender
Sachiko Kubota
2. Becoming a 'Female Citizen' in Colonial Kerala
Toshie Awaya
3. Power, Culture and Masculinity in (Post-)Colonial Orissa, India
Akio Tanabe
4. Uncovering the 'domestic': gender, modernity, and the division of reproductive labor in Bali
Ayami Nakatani
5. 'Source' and 'Home': Gender and Contemporary Lifeworlds in Central Flores, Southeast Indonesia
Eriko Aoki
6. Reorganizing and Traversing Space: Women in the Peripheries of Thailand
Yoko Hayami
7. Aesthetics of the Female Self: Modernity and Cultural Agency of Urban Middle-class Women in Orissa
Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe
8. Constructing Male Aesthetics in Rock and Makeup: Gender Strategies by Musicians and Fans of Visual Rock in Japan
Takako Inoue
9. (De-)Sexualizing Gender Relationships: Sexual Harassment as Modern and as a Critique of Modernity
Ichiro Numazaki
Epilogue: From Modernity and Beyond
Yoko Hayami
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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