Book Review: Refiguring Women,Colonialism,and Modernity in Burma

Bailkin Jordanna (2005), ‘Making faces: Tattooed women and colonial regimes’, History Workshop Journal, Vol 59, No 1, pp 33–56.

Charney Michael (2009), A History of Modern Burma, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Edwards Penny (2002), ‘Half-cast: Staging race in British Burma’, Postcolonial Studies, Vol 5, No 3, pp 279–299.

Edwards Penny (2003), ‘On home ground: Settling land and domesticating difference in the ‘non-settler’ colonies of Burma and Cambodia’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol 4, No 3.

Ikeya Chie (2008), ‘The modern Burmese woman and the politics of fashion in colonial Burma’, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 67, No 4, pp 1277–1308.

Ikeya Chie (2010), ‘The scientific and hygienic housewife-and-mother: Education, consumption and the discourse of domesticity’, Journal of Burma Studies, Vol 14, pp 59–89.

Keck Stephen L (2004), ‘Picturesque Burma: British travel writing 1890–1914’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol 35, No 3, pp 387–414.

Lwyn Tinzar (1994), ‘Stories of gender and ethnicity: Discourses of colonialism and resistance in Burma’, Australian Journal of Anthropology, Vol 5, Nos 1–2, pp 60–85.

Saha Jonathan (2010), ‘The male state: Colonialism, corruption and rape investigations in the Irrawaddy Delta c. 1900’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol 47, No 3, pp 343–376.

Wienbaum Eve Alys , eds (2008), The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity and Globalization, Duke University Press, Durham, NC.