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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” - Yeonmi Park"One of the most harrowing...
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Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Explores the experiences of Korean military brides in the United StatesSince the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women...
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Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Based on the lives and crimes of no less than twenty real women, dokufu (poison women) narratives emerged as a powerful presence in Japan during ...
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Widows and Daughters: Gender, Kinship, and Power in South Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This book outlines the so called 'contemporary Asian matriarchate'. In the twentieth century, six women have held the office of prime minister in S...
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Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Since the Korean War--the forgotten war--more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women ma...
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Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Daughter of Good Fortune tells the story of Chen Huiqin and her family through the tumultuous 20th century in China. She witnessed the Japanese occ...
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Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
HardcoverOriginal price $102.95 - Original price $102.95Original price $102.95$121.99$121.99 - $121.99Current price $121.99| /In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistres...
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Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Empire's Mistress Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez follows the life of Filipina vaudeville and film actress Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was the mistres...
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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry "The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 may be the most important book of poe...
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Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivitie...
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A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. ...
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The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina...
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Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"Lim recounts her journey with a poet's eye for detail and a storyteller's gift for narrative."--Ms.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781558611795 Media Typ...
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One Left: A Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions...
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The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame No Uzume
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Shunsuke Tsurumi (1922-2015), the author, was a Japanese-leading philosopher, cultural and intellectual historian, sociologist, critic, editor and ...
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Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020
HardcoverOriginal price $110.50 - Original price $110.50Original price $110.50$110.99$110.99 - $110.99Current price $110.99| /At the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overal...
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Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980-2020
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /At the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overal...
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The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame No Uzume
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume is the first complete English translation of Ame no Uzume den (1991) by one ...
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The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /The Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social ties--specifical...
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The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The Party Family explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary China through the crucial role that social ties--specifical...
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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Cheryl C. D. Hughes is Professor Emerita at Tulsa Community College. She is the author of Katherine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Story of an American...
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Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China
HardcoverOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for he...
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Modified Bodies, Material Selves: Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Thin body, white skin, and big eyes. Such beauty ideals are ubiquitous across Shanghai, where salons and weight-loss clinics offering an array of p...
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles...
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