Romancing Human Rights: Gender, Intimacy, and Power Between Burma and the West

by Tamara C. Ho

When the world thinks of Burma, it is often in relation to Nobel laureate and icon Aung San Suu Kyi. But beyond her is another world, one that complicates the overdetermination of Burma as a pariah state and myths about the "high status" of Southeast Asian women. Highlighting and critiquing this fraught terrain, Tamara C. Ho's Romancing Human Rights maps "Burmese women" as real and imagined figures across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824839250
• ISBN13: 9780824839253
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"