Introduction 1. Contesting Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity in Contemporary Social Theory 2. Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity in Contemporary Asia 3. Reflexivity and the Transformation of Gender Identity in Cosmopolitan Asia 4. Postmodern Confucianism, 'Moral Economies' and 'Biopolitical Otherness' in Redefining Intimacy and Identity in Southeast Asia 5. Sex and 'Singlehood' as a Source of Tension in Contemporary Asia 6. Cultural Production, Intimacy and Identity: Paradigms of Resistance and Islamic Orthodoxy in Asia
Biography
Ann Brooks is Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at the University of Adelaide. She is author of Academic Women (Open University Press, 1997); Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (Routledge, 1997); Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets (Ashgate, 2006) and co-author of Gender and the Restructured University: Changing Management and Culture in Higher Education (Open University Press, 2001). Her latest book is: Social Theory in Contemporary Asia: Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity (Routledge 2010). Her forthcoming books include Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity (Palgrave 2011) and a co-edited collection on the work of Norbert Elias.
