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Gender and Modernity
by Akio Tanabe, Yoko Hayami & Yumiko Tokita
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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-masculinisation
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 contributions
reveal that local actors are confronted with these competing values and
rationalities of local traditions and global modernity.
Contents
Introduction: Gender and modernity in Asia and the Pacific by Akio
Tanabe & Yumiko Tokita
Legacies of the mission by Sachiko Kubota
Becoming a ‘female citizen’ in colonial Kerala by Toshie Awaya
Power, culture and masculinity in (post-)colonial Orissa, India by Akio
Tanabe
Uncovering the ‘domestic’ by Ayami Nakatani
‘Source’ and ‘home’ by Eriko Aoki
Reorganizing and traversing space by Yoko Hayami
Aesthetics of the female self by Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe
Constructing male aesthetics in rock and makeup by Takako Inoue
(De-)sexualizing gender relationships by Ichiro Numazaki
Epilogue: From modernity and beyond by Yoko Hayami
Published by Trans Pacific Press
Published 2003, 300 pp.
ISBN 4 876984 51 4, hardback, £40.00
ISBN 1 876843 60 8, paperback, £19.99
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