Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory): 21 - Image 1

£63.57

University of Hawaii Press Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory): 21

Name: Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory): 21
Brand: University of Hawaii Press
Price: 84.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 32 days • 32 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 32 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £64 (12 days, 37.5%)

Price range: £64 - £85

Price levels: 4 different prices over 32 days

Description

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.

Key Features

Used Book in Good Condition

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Hawaii Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0824834615
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 May 2011
Listed Since: 21 June 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Hawaii Press Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory): 21

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism

Women in Modern Burma (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Women in Modern Burma (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma

Chinese in Colonial Burma: A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Identity and Nation in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines: 6 (Asia in Transition, 6)

The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Identity and Nation in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines: 6 (Asia in Transition, 6)

Rethinking New Womanhood: Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia

Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume I: Social, Political and Ecological Perspectives: 1

Women Warriors in Southeast Asia (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Rethinking New Womanhood: Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia

Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies: Beyond Han Patriarchy

Negotiating Identities in Women's Lives: English Postcolonial and Contemporary British Novels: 196 (Contributions in Women's Studies)

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932: 136 (Studies in Imperialism)

Rethinking Women's and Gender Studies

Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition

Reframing Postcolonial Studies: Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarly Activisms

Containing Decolonisation: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma: 224 (Studies in Imperialism)

Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology

Women in Asia: Tradition, modernity and globalisation

Decolonial Feminist Research: Haunting, Rememory and Mothers (Futures of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research)

The "Other" Karen in Myanmar: Ethnic Minorities And The Struggle Without Arms (Asiaworld)

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan (ASAA Women in Asia Series)