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Contested Selves

Author : Katja Herges,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640141056

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Investigates the field of German life writing, from Rahel Levin Varnhagen around 1800 to Carmen Sylva a century later, from Döblin, Becher, women's WWII diaries, German-Jewish memoirs, and East German women's interview literatureto the autofiction of Lena Gorelik.

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone

Author : Sandya Hewamanne
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812202250

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Anthropologist Sandya Hewamanne spent time in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. "They were poor women from rural areas," Hewamanne writes, "who migrated to do garment work in transnational factories of a global assembly line. Their difficult work routines and sad living conditions have been examined in detail. When I was with them I often wondered whether anyone noticed the smiles, winks, smirks, gestures, tones of voice, the movies they saw, or the songs they sang." Hewamanne deftly weaves theories of identity, globalization, and cultural politics throughout her detailed accounts of the workers' efforts to negotiate ever shifting roles and expectations of gender, class, and sexuality. By analyzing how these workers claim political subjectivity, Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about women at the bottom of the global economy. The book offers a fascinating journey through the vibrant subaltern universe of Sri Lankan female migrant workers, from the FTZ factory shop floor to boarding houses, from urban movie theaters to temples and beaches and back to their native rural villages. Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone captures the spirit with which women confront power and violence through everyday poetics and politics, exploring how female workers construct themselves as different while investigating this difference as the space where deep anxieties and ambivalences over notions of nation, modernity, and globalization get played out.

The Feminization of Modernity

Author : Latdavone Khamphouvong
Publisher : ศูนย์บริหารงานวิจัย สำนักงานมหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9786163983879

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In 1986, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) put into effect it's New Economic Mechanism (NEM) in its bid for modernization and development. With this national policy came the conversion of a predominantly agricultural and subsistence-based economy into one focused on commodity-driven production. The country's integration into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its signing of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) made official its integration into the regional and internationnal economy. The once state-planned, socialist economy was restructured into an open, liberalized one. One sector that has experienced marked growth is manufacturing, specifically the garment industry, Domestic and foregin-owned garment factories established beginning in the earyl 1990s now have Laos exporting 80% of its garment products to European Union (EU) nations.

Southeast Asia

Author : Jonathan Rigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134519514

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The revised edition of Southeast Asia provides a grounded account of how people in the region are responding to - and being affected by - the changes sweeping through the region.

Contested Masculinities

Author : Nalin Jayasena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135922689

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Contested Masculinities by Nalin Jayasena Pdf

Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous masculinity, English masculinity began to share a common idiom with its colonial other. The rhetoric of indigenous masculinity, therefore, both mimicked and departed from its metropolitan counterpart. The study combines an interdisciplinary approach with a focus that is not limited to a single colonial society but ranges from colonial Bengal, Burma, Borneo and finally to colonial Australia.

Power Politics in Asia’s Contested Waters

Author : Enrico Fels,Truong-Minh Vu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319261522

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Power Politics in Asia’s Contested Waters by Enrico Fels,Truong-Minh Vu Pdf

This volume offers a comprehensive and empirically rich analysis of regional maritime disputes in the South China Sea (SCS). By discussing important aspects of the rise of China’s maritime power, such as territorial disputes, altered perceptions of geo-politics and challenges to the US-led regional order, the authors demonstrate that a regional power shift is taking place in Asia-Pacific. The volume also provides in-depth discussions of the responses to Chinese actions by SCS claimants as well as by important non-claimant actors.

Intersex and Identity

Author : Sharon E. Preves
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0813532299

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Intersex and Identity by Sharon E. Preves Pdf

Examines how intersexed individuals negotiate identity in a dual gendered culture.

Cosmopolitan Sexuality

Author : Ahonaa Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108490443

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"In a historic verdict, the Supreme Court of India in September 2018, struck down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and decriminalized homosexuality and granted personal rights and freedom to the LGBTQIA community at large. However, in December 2018, the Transgender Persons Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha (the People's House and lower house of Indian Parliament) that has negated and undermined the rights of the trans community in India. The Bill omits the reference to a 'neither male nor female' formulation, and covers any person whose gender does not match the gender assigned at birth, as well as transmen, transwomen, those with intersex variations, the gender-queer, and those who designate themselves based on socio-cultural identities such as hijra, aravani, kinner and jogta. This book articulates the ethnographic and anthropological studies of hijras (eunuchs) and the popular transgender culture in India through the case study of contemporary Mumbai. It studies how their identity is shaped through consumption of various practices of beauty and takes into account the direct provincial dialogues as to how the hijras negotiate different spaces of surgeries, clinics and medicine to shape their new forms of identity. It highlights how globalizing modernity would build a concrete understanding of the way local patterns of transgender sexuality and eroticism are shaped by this sort of culture. It attempts to build a more robust and complex understanding of sexual experiences among these subjects in the locale, thus projecting the intersection of local meanings of transgender eroticism that intersect global patterns of similar identities with their desire and sexuality. The local specificity of the hijra sexual economy relates to global transgender practices, thus proposing a nuanced discourse of space, culture and sexuality to the local context of the globalized and modernized India, instead of the articulation of global homogeneity of transgender identities"--

Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

Author : Amy Lind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135244606

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This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry’s persistent insistence on viewing sexuality as basically outside the realm of economic modernization and anti-poverty programs, this volume brings to the fore heterosexual bias within macroeconomic and human rights development frameworks. The work fills an important gap in understanding how people’s intimate lives are governed through heteronormative policies which typically assume that the family is based on blood or property ties rather than on alternative forms of kinship. By placing heteronormativity at the center of analysis, this anthology thus provides a much-needed discussion about the development industry’s role in pathologizing sexual deviance yet also, more recently, in helping make visible a sexual rights agenda. Providing insights valuable to a range of disciplines, this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Development Studies, Gender Studies, and International Relations. It will also be highly relevant to development practitioners and international human rights advocates. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203868348, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Childbirth and Tradition in Northeast Thailand

Author : Anders Poulsen
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788776940034

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This beautifully illustrated volume offers a rare study of Isan-Thai customs and beliefs associated with pregnancy and birth and how they have changed over almost half a century. Using a psychological and socio-therapeutic framework, Anders Poulsen discusses the function of various birth rites while giving an unmatched description of all traditions specifically connected to pregnancy and birth. He includes an interesting description of the tradition of confinement by fire (yuu fai) and documents that it is still widely practiced, contrary to what has been reported. He also puts forward a theory of why some traditions maintain their importance while others fade away. The findings of this study are supported by the transcription in Isan (and translated in to English) of the ritual texts that are used in these rites.

The Month

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001200160567

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Month and Catholic Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081740288

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Civil Liberty and Self-government

Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047157057

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On Civil Liberty and Self-government

Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : NYPL:33433061707307

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Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds

Author : Dorothy Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015062817369

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This text addresses the central problem in anthropological theory of the late 1990s - the paradox that humans are both products of social discipline and creators of remarkable improvisation.