Trans-Status Subjects

Sonita Sarker is Chair and Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.Esha Niyogi De teaches English and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“This collection brings together an astonishingly wide variety of original research about the problem of globalization and the relationship of gender, time, and space to it. Focusing on ‘embodied subjects’ in diverse locations and shifting grounds allows the authors to excavate conditions-cultural, political, socioeconomic-under which the people they are writing about become what the editors call ‘trans-status subjects.’”-Antoinette Burton, author of At the Heart of the Empire “This valuable anthology gathers together feminist perspectives on gender, postcolonial critique, and critiques of Western modernity, and the considerable work on global capitalism and transnationalism. The work is theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich, intervening in the discussions of women, colonial and neocolonial modernity, and globalization with respect to South Asian and Southeast Asian women and locales.”-Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Marking Times and Territories / Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De I. Figuring Genders in the Colony and Nation: Native and Foreign Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo / Susan Morgan The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution / Philippa Levine Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Columbo / Nihal Perera Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation / Sylvia Tiwon Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh / Kathryn McMahon II. Transporting Genders Between the Village and City: Representations and Resistances Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of Pahari Genders / Karen K. Gaul Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok’s Foodscape / GisÈle Yasmeen Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village in an Age of Rural Development / Andrew McRae The City between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore’s Gendered Imaginations / Esha Niyogi De III. Gendering Local-Global Circuits: Labor, Capital, and Subjects of Social Change South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured / Karen Leonard Diasporic Alienness and Belonging: Selected Indian-American Cultural Expressions / Ketu H. Katrak Jewish Diaspora through Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community / Jael Silliman Unruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa / Sonita Sarker Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility / Anannya Bhattacharjee Bibliography Contributors Index