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Shadowlines

Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia

Edited By: Develeena Ghosh

£39.99

Globalization is transforming life for women in Asia. New opportunities for work and migration can be empowering, but also enslaving. How do women experience these changes? This volume places their testimony at the center.

Shadowlines: Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia explores the often ambiguous and contradictory roles of Asian women in the postcolonial world. As globalisation advances, labour…

Shadowlines: Women and Borders in Contemporary Asia explores the often ambiguous and contradictory roles of Asian women in the postcolonial world. As globalisation advances, labour mobility is transforming traditional definitions of women’s work. The commodification of female sexuality in both the international and the national marketplace generates conflicting dynamics of oppression and liberation, as do the wider possibilities of employment and migration more generally. The consequences can be enslaving or empowering, depending on context. How do the women themselves experience these changes? What are their opportunities for engagement with the wider political world which shapes these processes? In this volume, a range of eminent academics address these questions by placing the testimony of individual women within the wider discourse of postcolonialism and gender studies.

Devleena Ghosh is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Inquiry at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research interests are in Indian Ocean studies, postcolonial studies and the cultural history of migration. She is the co-author, with Paul Gillen, of Colonialism and Modernity (UNSW Press, 2007), co-editor, with Stephen Muecke, of Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) and, with Heather Goodall and Stephanie Donald, of Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania (Routledge, 2008). She is currently involved in a project researching Intercolonial Networks in the Indian Ocean.