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General<\/strong> –<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

13.1: “Glorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the US\u2013Mexico Borderlands” by Long Thanh Bui (p. 129<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Central Asia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

East and Southeast Asia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Central Asia<\/strong> – <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

3.1: “Afghan Refugee Women’s Experience of Conflict and Disintegration” by Ayesha Khan (p. 89<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


East and Southeast Asia<\/strong> – <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

23.1: “What It Takes to Be Counted: An Interview with Ruby Hembrom” by Ruby Hembrom and interview by Priti Narayan (p. 235<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20.1: “Filipinx Care, Social Proximity, and Social Distance” by Alden Sajor Marte-Wood (p. 218<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18.2: “Introduction to Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association ‘Southeast Asia and the United Nations’ Discussion Group” by Mandira Venkat (p. 282<\/a>)
“The Dead, the Living, and the Sacred: Patsy Mink, Antimilitarism, and Reimagining the Pacific World” by Judy Tsu-Chun Wu (p. 304<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13.2: “Transnational Adoption and Life-Writing: Oppressed Voices in Jane Jeong Trenka\u2019s ‘The Language of Blood'” by Ina C. Seethaler (p. 79<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.1: “Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\u2019s ‘Dict\u00e9e'” by Jennifer Cho (p. 36<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.2: “Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women’s Magazine in Indonesia” by L. Ayu Saraswati (p. 15<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.1: “Revisiting Blu\u2019s Hanging: A Critique of Queer Transgression in the Lois-Ann Yamanaka Controversy” by Cynthia Wu (p. 32<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c’Hello, War Brides’: Heteroglossia, Counter-Memory, and the Auto\/biographical Work of Japanese War Brides” by Ayaka Yoshimizu (p. 111<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.2: “Chinese Women Protesting Domestic Violence: The Beijing Conference, International Donor Agencies, and the Making of a Chinese Women\u2019s NGO” by Lu Zhang (p. 66<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.1: “The Formation of a Chinese Immigrant Working-class Patriarchy: Reinventing
Gendered Expectations within the Structural Confines of U.S. Society” by Yu Shi (p. 31<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.1: “From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty Years: Theorizing Diasporic Chinese Female Subjectivities in Geling Yan’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ of Happiness” by Sally E. McWilliams (p. 133<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.2: “Feminist Tigers and Patriarchal Lions: Rhetorical Strategies and Instrument Effects in the Struggle for Definition and Control over Development in Nepal” by Jana Evans Braziel (p. 204<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Asia<\/strong> – <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

20.2: “Between Orientalism and Anti-Muslim Racism: Pakistan, the United States, and Women’s Transnational Activism in the Early Cold War Interlude” by Elora Shehabuddin (p. 340<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Entanglement of Secularism and Feminism in Pakistan” by Amina Jamal (p. 370<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20.1: “The Diversity of Women’s Studies and Women’s Histories: Reflections from South Asia” by Ramya Sreenivasan (p. 11<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Contesting Militarized Violence in ‘Northeast India’: Women Poets against Conflict” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Brinda J. Mehta (p. 53<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Engendering Protest and Rethinking ‘Azadi’ in Kashmir in Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Haider'” by Sreyoshi Sarkar (p. 90<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Mythical Courtesan: Womanhood and Dance in Transnational India” by Rumya S. Putcha (p. 127<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ethical Reckoning: Human Rights and National Cinema in Bangladesh” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Elora Halim Chowdhury (p. 151<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Letter-Poems to Shauki Masi: Diasporic Queer South Asian Muslim Reflections on the Five Pillars of Islam” by Sasha A. Khan (p. 183<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13.1: “Magic Tricks: The Politics of Memory, State, and Tribe in Lahaul, India” by Himika <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhattacharya (p. 157<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.2: “Gender, Religious Agency, and the Subject of Al-Huda International” by Khanum Shaikh (p. 62<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.1: SPECIAL ISSUE<\/a> “Memory”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.2: “Floating on Silent Waters: Religion, Nationalism, and Dislocated Women in Khamosh” by Shahnaz Khan (p. 130<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.1: “Meri Awaaz Suno: Women, Vocality, and Nation in Hindi Cinema” by Pavitra Sundar (p. 144<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.1: “Gender, Nation, and Globalization in ‘Monsoon Wedding’ and ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'” by Jenny Sharpe (p. 58<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s ‘Alien’: Copy with a Difference” by Nandini Bhattacharya (p. 82<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Feminist Negotiations: Contesting Narratives of the Campaign against Acid Violence in Bangladesh” by Elora Halim Chowdhury (p. 163<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.2: “Transnational Feminism as Critical Practice: A Reading of Feminist Discourses in Pakistan” by Amina Jamal (p. 57<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.1: “Departures from Karachi Airport: Some Reflections on Feminist Outrage” by Ambreen Hai (p. 142<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.2: “The ‘War on Terror,’ and Withdrawing American Charity: Some Consequences for Poor Muslim Women in Kolkata, India” by Suchitra Samanta (p. 137<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.2: “Shameless Women: Repression and Resistance in ‘We Sinful Women’ Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry” by Neluka Silva (p. 28<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.2: “Returning the American Gaze: Pandita Ramabai’s The Peoples of the United States, 1889” by Meera Kosambi (p. 188<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Chitra Divakaruni’s ‘The Mistress of Spices’: Deploying Mystical Realism” by Gita Rajan (p. 215<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.1: “\u2018The Shock of Sensation\u2019: On Reading ‘The Waves’ as a Girl in India, and as a Woman in America” by Meena Alexander (p. 179<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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