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This book brings together the work of scholars from around the
world in a consideration of how gender is contested in various
parts of Asia - in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the
Philippines. Part I of this collection explores notions of agency
in relation to women's domestic and everyday lives. While 'agency'
is one of the key terms in contemporary social science, scholarship
on women in Asia recently has focussed on women's political
activism. Women's private lives have been neglected in this new
scholarship. This volume has a special focus on women's relational
and emotional lives, domestic practices, marriage, singlehood and
maternity. Papers consider how women negotiate enhanced space and
reputations, challenging negative representations and entrenched
models of intra-family and intimate relations. There is also a
warning about too free feminist expectations of agency and the
repercussions of the exercise of agency. The three essays in Part
II examine the historical construction of masculinities in colonial
and postcolonial South and Southeast Asia, and the ways that
manhood is interpreted, experienced and performed in daily life in
the past and in present times. They highlight the centrality and
continued relevance of masculinity to analyses of empire and nation
and underscore the highly gendered and (hetero)sexualized nature of
political, military, and economic institutions. Collectively, the
essays explore a wide range of competing articulations and
experiences of gender within Asia, emphasising the historical and
contemporary plurality and variability of femininity and
masculinity, and the dynamic and intersectional nature of gender
identities and relations. This book was published as a special
issue of Asian Studies Review.
This book brings together the work of scholars from around the
world in a consideration of how gender is contested in various
parts of Asia - in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the
Philippines. Part I of this collection explores notions of agency
in relation to women's domestic and everyday lives. While 'agency'
is one of the key terms in contemporary social science, scholarship
on women in Asia recently has focussed on women's political
activism. Women's private lives have been neglected in this new
scholarship. This volume has a special focus on women's relational
and emotional lives, domestic practices, marriage, singlehood and
maternity. Papers consider how women negotiate enhanced space and
reputations, challenging negative representations and entrenched
models of intra-family and intimate relations. There is also a
warning about too free feminist expectations of agency and the
repercussions of the exercise of agency. The three essays in Part
II examine the historical construction of masculinities in colonial
and postcolonial South and Southeast Asia, and the ways that
manhood is interpreted, experienced and performed in daily life in
the past and in present times. They highlight the centrality and
continued relevance of masculinity to analyses of empire and nation
and underscore the highly gendered and (hetero)sexualized nature of
political, military, and economic institutions. Collectively, the
essays explore a wide range of competing articulations and
experiences of gender within Asia, emphasising the historical and
contemporary plurality and variability of femininity and
masculinity, and the dynamic and intersectional nature of gender
identities and relations. This book was published as a special
issue of Asian Studies Review.
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.
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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