Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

The Symbolic Construction of Community

Book-length study of black, Chinese, and Japanese self-employment in northern cities of the United States, 1880-1940, Self-employment is explained as a product of moral communities resulting from migration networks.

Ethnic Enterprise in America: Business and Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese and Blacks

Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables List of boxes 1. The study and its rationale Part I. Modes of Provision: 2. The development of the habit of eating out in the UK 3. The meanings of eating out Part II. Access: 4. Patterns of eating out 5. Domestic organisation, family meals and eating out Part III. Delivery: 6. Personal service in public and private places 7. Last suppers Part IV. Enjoyment: The Attractions of Eating Out: 8. Eating out and its gratifications 9. The enjoyment of meal events Part V. Conclusion: 10. Eating out and the theories of consumption Methodological appendix: data collection and analysis References.

Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure

The article examines the educational and employment experiences and aspirations of young Pakistani and Bangladeshi people living in Oldham, in Great Manchester. Many young people demonstrated high aspirations and high levels of participation, particularly in relation to the educational and occupational level of their parents. Explanatory factors include the cultural value of education among Asian groups, the desire by parents to ensure success for their children and the ethnic penalty which these young people incur in the labour market. However, not all Pakistani and Bangladeshi young people have these aspirations. Girls who wished to continue their education faced a more complex situation than boys; for girls it was important to avoid jeopardizing the family honour. Nonetheless, national statistics show a marked increase in the numbers of young Pakistani and Bangladeshi women in full-time undergraduate courses in recent years. Women with degree level qualifications showed considerable determination to co...

Routes into Education and Employment for Young Pakistani and Bangladeshi Women in the UK

Diaspora and Hybridity

This paper examines change and diversity in the lives of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women using qualitative interviews based in Oldham and secondary analysis of the Fourth National Ethnic Minority S...

The Labour Market Prospects for Pakistani and Bangladeshi Women

"A Postcolonial People" is a lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature. This specially commissioned book combines conceptually innovative analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The migration and settlement of South Asians in large numbers in Britain is examined in the context of the postcolonial condition, in which boundaries between the West and Rest, centre and periphery, home and abroad are increasingly blurred. The contributors provide both fresh insights and vital information on the Asian British experience in its socio-economic, historical and cultural dimensions. The topics covered include: identity, the transformation of urban space, policing, healthcare, electoral politics, music, British Asian theatre and cinema.

Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain

Part 1 Constructing labour: class and ethnicity overlapping perspectives enmeshing formations. Part 2 Methodology: ethnicity and the labelling of groups developing a new terminology reflexive approaches identifying a field and a sample ethical issues. Part 3 Migration and repercussion: migration theory early migration rural context - geography, agriculture and society historical conduits mass migration political history post-1947 Mangla Dam and its impact on migration consequences of mass migration in Mirpur's economy and society Mirham and Oldpur. Part 4 Textile tours: Lancashire, the Indian sub-continent and cotton textiles decline of the textile industry in England king cotton - Oldham labour in Lancashire and Oldham migrant labour routing mills. Part 5 Of mills and men: routes to Oldham routes to a job organizing mill work the night-shift in a mill mills and men. Part 6 Of men and mills: Eid and trips to (Azad) Kashmir/Pakistan union membership and participation interaction and relationship at work decline of mills factors of redundancy. Part 7 Redundant not despondent: initial responses to unemployment changes in life organization family commitments moral change - ways of explaining the world work to non-work. Part 8 Take-away lives: South Asian entrepreneurship take-aways the maharaba relationships at work self-employment or survival? Part 9 From textile mills to taxi ranks: taxi drivers and taxi rank owners cabbing work risky business from taxi ranks to...? Part 10 Beyond labour: explanations narratives audiences. Appendix I - profile of Oldhams's (Azad) Kashmiri/Pakistani population: population economic activity unemployment data by age economic profile of Oldham.

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Virinder S. Kalra

Papers

Routes into Education and Employment for Young Pakistani and Bangladeshi Women in the UK

Diaspora and Hybridity

The Labour Market Prospects for Pakistani and Bangladeshi Women

Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain

From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks: Experiences of Migration, Labour and Social Change