Women in Asia

Women in Asia: tradition, modernity, and globalisation
edited by Louise Edwards & Mina Roces
Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000.
ISBN: 0472087517   ISBN13: 9780472087518   DDC: 305.42095   LCC: HQ1240.5   Edition: (pbk.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000 /Mina Roces, Louise Edwards
--Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth
century /Maila Stivens --The status of women in a patriarchal state:
the case of Singapore /Jasmine Chan --Women in the People's Republic
of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative /Louise
Edwards --Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience
/Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase --Negotiating modernities: Filipino women,
1970-2000 /Mina Roces --Indonesian women: from Orde Baru to Reformasi
/Kathryn Robinson --Rhetoric or reality?: contesting definitions of
women in Korea /Sasha Hampson --Breaking the patriarchal paradigm:
Chinese women in Hong Kong /C. Tang ... [et al.] --Being women in
Japan, 1970-2000 /Elise K. Tipton --Women in Taiwan: linking economic
prosperity and women's progress /Lan-hung Nora Chiang --Exploring
women's status in contemporary Thailand /Bhassorn Limanonda
--Militarism, civil war and women's status: a Burma case study
/Janell Mills --Re-gendering Vietnam: from militant to market
socialism /Esta Ungar.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 305.42095 -- Social groups
LCC Number: HQ1240.5

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xiii, 327 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk.)

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