1st Edition
Dangerous Designs Asian Women Fashion the Diaspora Economies
Biography
Parminder Bhachu is Professor of Sociology at Clark University, Massachusetts, USA. She was formerly Henry R. Luce Professor of Cultural Identities and Global Processes, and Director of the Women’s Studies program. She is author of Twice Migrants (1985), and is co-editor of Immigration and Entrepreneurship (1993) and Enterprising Women (1988).
'Parminder Bhachu is the most authentic and imaginative intellectual of the diaspora that I have come across. Parminder is on the cutting edge - a sophisticated analyzer of multilayered identities and cultural locations . . . and wears great salwar-kameezes too.' - Gurinder Chadha, Director of Bend it Like Beckham, Bhaji on the Beach and What's Cooking
'Simply put, this is must read for any Asian Woman reader ... Buy this book!'' ...shows how the hardware of transnational networks enables competing discourses of fashion to project conflicting visions of modernity onto a global scale.' - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
