Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
Issue 5, May, 2001

Images of Women


Images of Women and Embodiment in Kakawin Literature
Helen Creese

Writing and Memory in Kim Lefèvre's Autobiographical Narratives
Nathalie Nguyen

Waiting Women: The Return of Stragglers and Japanese Constructions of Womanhood in Collective Memories of World War II, 1972-1974
Beatrice Trefalt

Stitching at the Boundaries: Vietnamese Garment Industry Workers in Transnational Spaces
Mandy Thomas

Speaking Menopause: Intersections Between Asian and Western Medical Discourses
Chilla Bulbeck

Interview

'Métisse Blanche': Entretien avec Kim Lefèvre (Introduction in English)
Nathalie Nguyen


Review Section

Films

Dir. Kunihiko Ikuhara
Utena: Adolescence Mokushiroku (The Adolescence of Utena)
reviewed by Sabdha Charlton

Books

Peter A. Jackson and Nerida M. Cook (eds),
Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand,
reviewed by Katherine A. Bowie.

Yamazaki Tomoko,
Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women,
review essay by James F. Warren.

Mary Beth Mills,
Thai Women in the Global Labor Force,
reviewed by Andrew Matzner.

Lisa Rofel,
Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism,
reviewed by Sally Sargeson.

Carolyn Brewer and Anne-Marie Medcalf (eds),
Researching the Fragments: Histories of Women in the Asian Context,
reviewed by Sandra Wilson.

Anne Allison,
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics and Censorship in Japan,
reviewed by Vera Mackie.

Contributors

Call For Papers


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