Buch
Monografie
Gender politics in Asia : women manoeuvring within dominant gender orders
Herausgegeben von:
Lundstrom-Burghoorn, Wil
Copenhagen:
NIAS
,
2008
,
221 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Lundstrom-Burghoorn, Wil |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Gendering Asia
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Jahr: | 2008 |
| Maße: | 23cm |
| ISBN: | 8776940152 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and womens strategies to negotiate and change gender relations individually or collectively. The case studies - bringing interdisciplinary approaches and based on in-depth empirical data - deal with women who are diversely situated in various countries in Asia: urban housewives in Japan, prosperous modern women in Singapore, women mayors and NGO activists in China, Buddhist nuns in Thailand and Hindu healers in Malaysia, as well as suffragists, Catholic nuns, highland women, a First Lady and two female presidents in the Philippines. Contents: Women, citizenship and the politics of dress in 20th century Philippines (Mina Roces) * Community-based movements of Japanese women: how mothers infiltrate the political sphere from below (Mikiko Eto) * The state of gender in the Sathya Sai Baba movement in Malaysia (Alexandra Kent) * Gender and religious legitimacy in Thailand (Monica Lindberg Falk) * Consciousness-raising among and beyond women's movement activists in China (Ceclia Milwertz and Bu Wei) * The Women Mayors' Association in China (Qi Wang) * Women's political role in Singapore (Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew) * | |
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