Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Marking Times and Territories 1
5. I FIGURING GENDERS IN THE COLONY AND NATION: NATIVE AND FOREIGN
6. Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo 31
7. The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution 51
8. Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Colombo 67
9. Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation 88
10. Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh 108
11. II TRANSPORTING GENDERS BETWEEN THE VILLAGE AND CITY: REPRESENTATIONS AND RESISTANCES
12. Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of Pahari Genders 129
13. Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok’s Foodscape 147
14. Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village in an Age of Rural Development 167
15. The City between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore’s Gendered Imaginations 189
16. III GENDERING LOCAL-GLOBAL CIRCUITS: LABOR, CAPITAL, AND SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
17. South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured 213
18. Diasporic Alienness and Belonging: Selected Indian-American Cultural Expressions 232
19. Jewish Diaspora through Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community 249
20. Unruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa 267
21. Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility 289
22. Bibliography 309
23. Contributors 333
24. Index 335