Intersections: Gender and Sexulaity in Asia and the Pacific
Issue 19, February 2009
Books Received
Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy, Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Yue Dong and Tani E. Barlow (eds)
The Modern Girl Around the World:
Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization

Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8233-4305-9 (pbk), x + 435 pp.
Yan Hairong
New Masters, New Servants:
Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4304-2 (pbk), ix + 314 pp.
Wil Burghoorn, Kazaki Iwanaga, Cecilia Milwertz, Qi Wang (eds
Gender Politics in Asia:
Women Manoeuvring within Dominant Gender Orders

Copenhagen: Nias Pres, 2008
ISBN: 978-87-7694-91507, xii + 221 pp.


Assa Doron
Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges,
Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978 0 7546 7550 1, xvii + 198 pp.
Pinar Ilkkaracan (ed.)
Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East
Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7235-7 (hbk), xii +218 pp.


Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan (eds)
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World:
The Intimate and the Extimate

Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7364-4 (hbk), xv + 226 pp.
Fiona Beveridge and Samantha Velluti (eds)
Gender and the Open Method of Coordination:
Perspectives on Law, Governance and Equality in the EU

Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7343-9 (hbk), xiii + 212 pp

Henrike Donner
Domestic Goddesses:
Maternity, Globalisation and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India

Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7446-4942-7 (hbk), xii + 215 pp.
Livia Holden
Hindu Divorce: A Legal Anthropology
Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4960-1 (hbk), xxiii + 259 pp.

Paige Whaley Eager
From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists:
Women and Political Violence

Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7225-8 (hbk), vii + 240 pp.
Meena Sharify-Funk
Encountering the Transnational:
Women, Islam and the Politics of Interpretation

Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7123-7, xii + 203 pp.

Mangai Natarajan
Women Police in a Changing Society:
Back Door to Equality

Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978 0 7546 4932 8 (hbk), xviii + 288 pp.
Kristina Göransson
The Binding Tie:
Chinese Intergenerational Relations in Modern Singapore

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8248-3352-7 (pbk), x + 191 pp.

Kathy Davis
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves:
How Feminism Travels Across Borders

Duke University Press, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8233-4045-4 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0-8233-4066-9 (pbk), xii + 277 pp.
Simon Richter
Missing the Breast:
Gender, Fantasy and the Body in the German Enlightenment

Seattle, London: University of Washington Press, 2006
ISBN: 0-295-98611-5, pp. ix + 353 pp.

Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, James Welker (eds)
Queer Voices from Japan: First Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities
Lanham MD and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2007
ISBN 978 0 7391-2159-7 (pbk), xvi + 355 pp.



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