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...Sally Hastings Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor . By Ayako Kano . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2016 . ix, 320 pp. ISBN: 9780824873813 (paper). Our Unions, Our Selves: The Rise of Feminist Labor Unions in Japan . By Anne...

...James Peacock Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves . By Ward Keeler . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1987 . xv, 282 pp. $32.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 428 T H E J O U R N A L OF ASIAN STUDIES character...

...Nancy Rosenberger Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace . By Dorinne K. Kondo . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1989 . xiii , 346 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 157...

...Rafael Reyes-Ruiz No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan . By Daniel Touro Linger . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2001 . xix , 442 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1065 No One...

... Institution Press . Kloppenborg R. 1977 . “ Theravada Buddhism in Nepal .” Kailash 5 : 301 –22. Kondo D. K. 1990 . Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Kooij K. R. v. 1978 . Religion in Nepal...

...Bodhisattva Kar Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures: The Multiple Selves and Strange Destination of Ashis Nandy . Edited by Vinay Lal . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Robert B. Albritton Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves . By Mary Beth Mills . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 1999 . v, 218 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000...

... critiques North Korean totalitarianism without any trace of the morally superior tone that often accompanies such critiques. In fact, Ryang places totalitarianism alongside neoliberalism as two different but complementary mechanisms of a larger biopolitical system. Writing Selves in Diaspora...

...Rachel Rinaldo Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam, and Queer Selves . By Sharyn Graham Davies . London and New York : Routledge , 2010 . xvii, 257 pp. $148.00 (cloth); $42.95 (paper). Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia . By Evelyn...

...Katherine P. Ewing The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves . By Ashis Nandy . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1995 . xii, 275 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 240 THE JOURNAL...

...Su-kyoung Hwang Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945 . By E. Taylor Atkins . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . 280 pp. $51.72 (cloth); $20.76 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Colonial history...

...Charles Ramble Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal . Edited Debra Skinner , Alfred Pach III and Dorothy Holland . Afterword by Robert I. Levy . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield...

... and energy make it a fascinating read. For these reasons, it deserves a wide audience. I have two main objections to the book's argument, one methodological and the other a matter of emphasis. The first is central to Nandy's thesis, drawn from egopsychology, that "selves" exist to be lost and recovered...

... to the book's argument, one methodological and the other a matter of emphasis. The first is central to Nandy's thesis, drawn from egopsychology, that "selves" exist to be lost and recovered, and that stable identities can be located amidst the rubble of colonial destruction. This seems somewhat too optimistic...

... to the Japanese Occupation and Indonesian Revolution. Indeed, they largely ignore what is conventionally regarded as political. Both narratives end, in fact, with their authors' remembered selves still in their teens, about to embark for further education far from their childhood homelands. This gives them...

... in India. N A N C Y M. M A R T I N Chapman University The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves. By A s m s N A N D Y . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 275 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Ashis Nandy's abiding concern has been the psychology of dominance...

... concern. Alan Roland, inhabiting the real world of the psychoanalyst, is also aware of such urgencies. Having chosen the title, "Selves in Motion: An Indian-Japanese Comparison," he too conveys a lively concern for the evolving "selves" of real people; his essay is also the one that spans the culture area...

... position of a plurality of selves with greater emphasis on interaction and situationality to supersede earlier major analyses of the Japanese. The essays of both Lynch and Dissanayake, similar to a number of others, move in a narrative direction through the thickets of theoretical exposition to a clearing...

... consideration provide subtle insight into the dynamics of particular bio-moral selves. However, because of its vast geographical and cultural focus, the book simply does not hold together as an integrated study. Too much is taken for granted about the natural integrity of Asian theory and practice, and a reader...

... on postmodern theorizing: “the control over land is seen in terms of the linkages between their [women's] productive and reproductive selves” (p. 146). Such phrases as “productive and reproductive selves” are overused without clarification or contextualization, and thus lead to confusion. Happily, Rao goes...