These 16 essays, presented by Ferguson (political science and women's studies, U. of Hawai'i) and Mironesco (political science, U. of Hawai'i), apply a critical feminist lens to a variety of topics loosely circumscribed by the conceptual anchor points of gender, globalization, and Asia/Pacific (primarily represented here by China, India, Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Thailand, Oceania, Samoa, Hawai'i, California, Mexico, and South Korea. The papers are organized into sections on confronting colonial discourses; cultural translations; media; labor, migration, and families; trafficking; and militarization. Papers discuss such specific subjects as the missionary discourse of sex, death, and disease in 19th century Hawai'i; the concept of the term "gender" traveling into and throughout China; images of Japanese Americans on Japanese TV; transnational cultural flows and the intensification of male dominance in India; the technologizing of work and the gendering of labor; gender and modernity in a Chinese economic zone; prostitution and female subjectivity within anti-trafficking discourses; and gendered experiences of the environmental effects of the US military presence in the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
