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  • Backward Glances

    Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary

    by Fran Martin, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between women in popular films, elite and pulp fiction, and television dramas, Fran Martin shows how youthful same-sex love is often framed as a universal, even ennobling, feminine ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Dreams of Flight

    The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

    by Fran Martin ...
    In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

    Working towards Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism

    Edited by Fatima Pirbhai-Illich, Shauneen Pete, Fran Martin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place. The contributing authors are from a range of diaspora, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Decolonizing Educational Relationships

    Practical Approaches for Higher and Teacher Education

    by fatima Pirbhai-Illich, Fran Martin, Shauneen Pete ...
    Due to the enduring legacy of the colonial, capitalist project, we have arguably entered an era of social, cultural, economic, and environmental collapse. There is a heightened awareness of a range of global issues including racism and xenophobia, economic and cultural protectionism, environmental degradation, and climate change – yet there appears to be a resistance to taking action that ... Read more

    $94.29 USD

  • Mobile Cultures

    New Media in Queer Asia

    by Lynn Spigel ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    Mobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media—fax machines, mobile phones, the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, and global television—have grown exponentially in Asia over the past decade. This explosion of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Lifestyle Media in Asia

    Consumption, Aspiration and Identity

    Edited by Fran Martin, Tania Lewis ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with choices about their lifestyles and identities. One aspect of this development has been the emergence of new wealthy middle classes with lifestyle aspirations shaped by national, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Telemodernities

    Television and Transforming Lives in Asia

    by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, Wanning Sun ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD