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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Marking Times and Territories -- I FIGURING GENDERS IN THE COLONY AND NATION: NATIVE AND FOREIGN -- Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo -- The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution -- Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Colombo -- Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation -- Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh -- II TRANSPORTING GENDERS BETWEEN THE VILLAGE AND CITY: REPRESENTATIONS AND RESISTANCES -- Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of Pahari Genders -- Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok's Foodscape -- Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village in an Age of Rural Development -- The City between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore's Gendered Imaginations -- III GENDERING LOCAL-GLOBAL CIRCUITS: LABOR, CAPITAL, AND SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured -- Diasporic Alienness and Belonging: Selected Indian-American Cultural Expressions -- Jewish Diaspora through Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community -- Unruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa -- Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index