Threads of globalization

Introduction: stitching together gender, textile and garment labor, and heritage in Asia - Melia Belli Bose

Part I: Fashioning identity: textiles, garments, and belonging

1 Wearing a gendered tree: a new style of garments from early modern to twentieth-century China - Yuhang Li

2 Women for cotton and men for wool: consuming gendered textiles in colonized Korea - Kyunghee Pyun

3 Gendered blue: women's jeans in postwar Taiwan - Ying-chen Peng

4 Bhutanese women and the performance of globalization - Emma Dick

5 Weaving and dyeing the ideal of reproduction among Shidong Miao in Guizhou province - Ho Zhao-hua

Part II: Gendering creative agency: women fashion designers, textile makers, and entrepreneurs

6 Soft power: Guo Pei and the fashioning of matriarchy - Kristen Loring Brennan

7 Investigating female entrepreneurship in silk weaving in contemporary Cambodia - Magali An Berthon

8 (Re)crafting distribution networks for contemporary Philippine textiles: women's advocacy and social enterprise - B. Lynne Milgram

9 Women weaving silken identities and revitalizing various Japanese textile traditions - Millie Creighton

Part III: Creative voices for change: textiles, gender, and artivism

10 Entangled histories of craft and conflict: the story of phulkari textiles in The Singh Twins's Slaves of Fashion - Cristin McKnight Sethi

11 The politics of wastefulness and 'the poetics of waste': Ruby Chishti's sartorial interventions - Saleema Waraich

12 Made in Rana Plaza: Dilara Begum Jolly's garment factory-themed art - Melia Belli Bose

Index