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Day 2 – Work

Areas of interest:

● Globalisation and the “feminisation” of workplaces

● Sexuality and the workplace – the inter-Asia experience

● Sex work

Readings:

● Cho Haejoang, “'You are entrapped in an imaginary well': the formation of subjectivity within compressed development - a feminist critique of modernity and Korean culture”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 1:1,  49-69

● Aihwa Ong, “The Gender and Labour Politics of Postmodernity”, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 20 (1991), pp. 279-309

● Lisa Rofel, Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999

● Ku Yu-ling, Our Stories: Migration and Labour in Taiwan, SIRD, Malaysia 2011

● Firdous Azim, “Feminist Struggles in Bangladesh”, Feminist Review, No. 80, Reflections on 25 Years (2005), pp. 194-197

● Govind Kelkar, “The Feminization of Agriculture in Asia: Implications for Women's Agency and Productivity”, http://www.agnet.org/library/eb/594/, Nov 8, 2011

● http://shobhaade.blogspot.com/2010/07/besharam-coach.html

● http://www.india-seminar.com/2001/505/505%20ratna%20kapur.htm

● http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MIsuDQTXpw, (film)

● Wuo Young-ie, "HOMEless: a case-study of private-public inversion and the temporal-spatial exclusion faced by migrant-domestic workers" Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 11:3

● Josephine Ho, “From Anti-Trafficking to Social Discipline: Or, The Changing Role of ‘Women’s’ NGOs in Taiwan,” in Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera, and Bandana Pattanaik (ed.), Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights, Paradigm, Boulder, 2005

● Ding Naifei,  “Stigma of sex and sex work”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7:2

● Kim Hyun Mee, “Work, nation and hypermasculinity: the 'woman' question in the economic miracle and crisis in South Korea”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2:1, 53-68