Gender politics in the Asia-Pacific region /

Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the r...

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Beste egile batzuk: Yeoh, Brenda S. A., Teo, Peggy, Huang, Shirlena
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Saila:International studies of women and place.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=139123
Aurkibidea:
  • Introduction : women's agencies and activisms in the Asia-Pacific region / Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang
  • Nine months : women's agency and the pregnant body in Singapore / Lily Phua and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
  • Body politics in Bangladesh / Tatijana Haque
  • The politics of resistance : working-class women in rural Taiwan / Rita S. Gallin
  • Negotiating land and livelihood : agency and identities in Indonesia's transmigration programme / Rebecca Elmhirst
  • Gendered surveillance and sexual violence in Filipina pre-migration experiences to Japan / Nobue Suzuki
  • Resisting history : Indonesian labour activism in the 1990s and the 'Marsinah' case / G.G. Weix
  • Contradictory identities and political choices : 'women in agriculture' in Australia / Ruth Panelli
  • The complexities of women's agency in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie
  • 'Asia' in everyday life : dealing with difference in contemporary Japan / Vera Mackie
  • Sites of transnational activism : Filipino non-government organisations in Hong Kong / Lisa Law.