Transnational Asia Pacific : gender, culture, and the public sphere / edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Larry E. Smith, and Wimal Dissanayake ; with the assistance of Laura Scott Holliday
Contents: Introduction / Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Wimal Dissanayake -- Posit(ion)ing human rights in the current global conjuncture / Pheng Cheah -- Bodies, letters, catalogs : Filipinas in transnational space / Rolando B. Tolentino -- The West's "comfort women" and the discourses of seduction / Lynn Thiesmeyer -- Bloody Mary meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka : imagining Asia/Pacific, from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge / Rob Wilson -- Representing the "new" Asia : Dick Lee, pop music, and a Singapore modern / C.J.W.-L. Wee -- Killing motherhood as institution and reclaiming motherhood as experience : Japanese women writers, 1970s-90s / Fukuko Kobayashi -- The melting pot of assimilation : cannibalizing the multicultural body / Sneja Gunew -- Dropping the towel : images of the body in contemporary Thai women's writing / Susan Fulop Kepner
