Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
Issue 18, October 2008
Books Received
Elise Tipton
Modern Japan: A Social and Political History. Second Edition
London and New York: Routledge
ISBN10 0-415-41871-2 (pbk); ISBN13 978-0-415-41871-3 pp. xvii, 297


Brigitte Baptandier (trans. Kristin Ingrid Fryklund)
The Lady of Linshui:
A Chinese Female Cult
,
Stanford, CA.: Stanford University Press, 2008
978-0-8047-4666-3 (hbk), pp. xiii, 374.
Margaret Rodham, Daniela Kraemer, Lissant Bolton and Jean Tarisesei
House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007
978-0-8248-3012-0 (hbk); pp. ix, 163


James Warren
Pirates, Prostitutes and Pullers:
Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History of Southeast Asia
,
Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2008
ISBN 978-0-9802-9654-9 (pbk), pp. xiii, 418
Leslie Butt and Richard Eves (editors)
Making Sense of Aids: Culture, Sexuality and Power in Melanesia
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008
ISBN 978-0-8248-3249-0 (pbk), pp. xviii, 320


Olivia Khoo
The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007
ISBN 978-962-209-889-3 (pbk), pp. vii + 218
The Southeast Asian Consortium on Gender, Sexuality and Health
Sexuality in Southeast Asia and China: Emerging Issues
Nakhon Pathom: The Southeast Asian Consortium on Gender, Sexuality and Health, Health Policy Studies, Mahidol University, 2007
ISBN 978-974-11-0717-9, pp. xv + 220


Louise Edwards
Gender, Politics and Democracy; Women's Suffrage in China
Stanford CA.: Stanford University Press, 2008
ISBN 978-0-8047-568804 (hbk), pp. xii + 334
Michelle Ford and Lyn Parker (eds)
Women and Work in Indonesia
Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2008
ISBN 978-0-415-40288-0 (hbk), pp. xi + 217



Lauran R. Hartley and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani (eds)
Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008
ISBN ISBN 978-0-8223-4277-9 (pbk), pp. xxxviii + 382
Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffrey, Roger Jeffrey
Degrees Without Freedom? Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in North India
Stanford CA.: Stanford University Press, 2008
ISBN 978-0-8074-5743-0 (pbk), pp. xiv + 240



Leonie R. Stickland
Gender Gymnastics: Performing and Consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue
Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2008
ISBN: 9781876843519 (pbk), pp. x + 281
Catherine Russell
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008
ISBN 978-0-8223-4312-7 (pbk), pp. xviii + 465


Amy Hanser
Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China
Stanford CA.: Stanford University Press, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8047-5837-6 (pbk), pp. viii + 235



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