REFIGURING WOMEN, COLONIALISM, AND MODERNITY IN BURMA by IKEYA, Chie

Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2011-03-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.0000 9.0000 6.4000. Book has some overall wear, like shelf wear. Covers and pages have some light dirtiness.\r\n

Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2011-03-31. Hardcover. Used: Good.

University of Hawaii Press. Used - Like New. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.

Paperback / softback. New. Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma presents the first study of one of the most prevalent and critical topics of public discourse in colonial Burma: the woman of the khit kala-""""the woman of the times""""-who burst onto the covers and pages of novels, newspapers, and advertisements in the 1920s. Educated and politicised, earner and consumer, """"Burmese"""" and """"Westernised,"""" she embodied the possibilities and challenges of the modern era, as well as the hopes and fears it evoked. In Refiguring Women Chie Ikeya interrogates what these shifting and competing images of the feminine reveal about the experience of modernity in colonial Burma. She marshals a wide range of hitherto unexamined Burmese language sources to analyse both the… Read More

Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2017. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 256 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. Presents the first study of one of the most prevalent and critical topics of public discourse in colonial Burma: the woman of the khit kala-"the woman of the times"-who burst onto the covers and pages of novels, newspapers, and advertisements in the 1920s.

Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2011. Hardcover. New. 239 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches.