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East is West and West is East : Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters between Asia and America

Between 1919-1938, contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nation. Karen Kuo's provocative East Is West and West Is East looks closely at these global shifts to modernity. In her analysis of five forgotten texts-t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kuo, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • How yellow and white women are sold : controlling Chinese and white female sexuality and the making of US domesticity in East is West
  • Masculine racial formations in Younghill Kang's East goes West : the making of an Oriental Yankee
  • Utopias lost and found : lost horizon and the revitalization of American masculinity, and the national imaginary
  • Envisioning feminism across the Pacific-Japanese and American feminism and the limits of race in facing two ways.