Asian medicine and globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Chen -- Sanskrit gynecologies in postmodernity : the commodization of Indian medicine in alternative medical and new-age discourses on women's health / Martha Ann Selby -- China reconstructs : cosmetic surgery and nationalism in the reform era / Susan Brownell.…”
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Asian Muslim women : globalization and local realities /

Table of Contents: “…"Just 6P on a T-shirt, or 12P on a pair of jeans" : Bangladeshi garment workers fight for a livable wage / Shelley Feldman -- Dilemmas of women's movements in Turkey : labor, charity, and neoliberal patriarchy / Damla Isik -- Complicated belonging : gendered empowerment and anxieties about "returning" among internally displaced Muslim women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka / Sandya Hewamanne -- Women in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan : notes on agency, resistance, and survival / Lubna Nazir Chaudhry -- Maintenance for divorced Muslim women after the Muslim Women (Protection of Right on Divorce) Act 1986 : a view from the lower courts / Silvia Vatuk -- Gender, sharia, and the politics of punishment : a contemporary Malaysian case / Maila Stivens -- At the forefront of a post-patriarchal Islamic education : female teachers in Indonesia / Ann Kull -- Education, gender, and Islam in China : the palace of religious education in challenging and sustaining "undisputed traditions" among Chinese Muslim women / Maria Jaschok and Hsu Ming Vicky Chan -- Cosmetics, fashion, and moral panics : the politics and ethics of beauty in a girl's dormitory in Kabul / Julie Billaud -- Negotiating polygamy : Islam gender, and feminism in Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen -- South Asian Muslim American girls : resistance and compliance in public and private spaces / Marcia Hermansen and Mahruq F. …”
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The affect of difference : representations of race in East Asian empire /

Table of Contents: “…: ethnographies of a dispersed empire / Chul Kim -- Faces that change : physiognomy, portraiture and photography in colonial Korea / Gyewon Kim -- Speaking Japanese : language and the expectation of empire / Kate McDonald -- Race behind the walls : contact and containment in Japanese images of urban Manchuria / Kari Shepherdson-Scott -- Imagining an affective community in Asia : Japan's wartime broadcasting and voices of inclusion / Ji Hee Jung -- Racialized sounds and cinematic affect : my nightingale, the Russian diaspora, and musical film in Manchukuo / Inyoung Bong -- Chang Hyokchu and the short twentieth century / John Whittier Treat -- Japan the beautiful : 1950s cosmetic surgery and the expressive Asian body / Kim Brandt -- Implied promises betrayed : "intraracial" alterity during Japan's imperial period / Edward Mack -- The sun never sets on Little Black Sambo : circuits of affection and the cultural hermeneutics of Chibikuro Sambo, a transpacific approach / William H. …”
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