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Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma (Hardcover, New)
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Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma (Hardcover, New)
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Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma presents the
first study of one of the most prevalent and critical topics of
public discourse in colonial Burma: the woman of the khit
kala-""the woman of the times""-who burst onto the covers and pages
of novels, newspapers, and advertisements in the 1920s. Educated
and politicised, earner and consumer, ""Burmese"" and
""Westernised,"" she embodied the possibilities and challenges of
the modern era, as well as the hopes and fears it evoked. In
Refiguring Women, Chie Ikeya interrogates what these shifting and
competing images of the feminine reveal about the experience of
modernity in colonial Burma. She marshals a wide range of hitherto
unexamined Burmese language sources to analyse both the discursive
figurations of the woman of the khit kala and the choices and
actions of actual women who-whether pursuing higher education,
becoming political, or adopting new clothes and
hairstyles-unsettled existing norms and contributed to making the
woman of the khit kala the privileged idiom for debating
colonialism, modernisation, and nationalism. The first book-length
social history of Burma to utilise gender as a category of
sustained analysis, Refiguring Women challenges the reigning
nationalist and anticolonial historical narratives of a
conceptually and institutionally monolithic colonial modernity that
made inevitable the rise of ethnonationalism and xenophobia in
Burma. The study demonstrates the irreducible heterogeneity of the
colonial encounter and draws attention to the conjoined development
of cosmopolitanism and nationalism. Ikeya illuminates the important
roles that Burmese men and women played as cultural brokers and
agents of modernity. She shows how their complex engagements with
social reform, feminism, anticolonialism, media, and consumerism
rearticulated the boundaries of belonging and foreignness in
religious, racial, and ethnic terms. Refiguring Women adds
significantly to examinations of gender and race relations,
modernisation, and nationalism in colonised regions. It will be of
interest to a broad audience-not least those working in the fields
of Southeast Asian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies,
cultural studies, and women's and gender studies.
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