Making space for the maid

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-71

  Sun, Wanning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

"Peripheral vision"; Domestic workers; Gaze; Post Mao China; Subaltern spectatorship; Television drama

Indexed keywords

EID: 62649145101     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680770802619508     Document Type: Review

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