Suchergebnisse

1. Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia / Maila Stivens -- 2. Indonesian women at work : reframing the subject / Krishna Sen -- 3. Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town / Kathryn Robinson -- 4. Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes / Maila Stivens -- 5. Between compliance and resistance : women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore / Nirmala PuruShotam -- 6. 'Flower vase and housewife' : women and consumerism in post-Mao China / Beverley Hooper -- 7. Chinese cultural revivalism : changing gender constructions in the Yangtze River delta / Anne E. McLaren -- 8. Vietnam's women in the renovation era / Stephanie Fahey -- 9. 'Dutiful daughters', estranged sisters : women in Thailand / Nerida Cook -- 10. The gendering of post-war Philippine politics / Mina Roces.

Collection of four articles, introduced by S. Abeyasekere, on gender, politics, state and class in Southeast Asia, on the question why gender has not been seen to matter by political science in the region, the non-incorporation of gender into the teaching of Chinese politics, marginalisation of the increasingly sophisticated research on gender issues in China, failure to consider them in mainstream Japanese politics, growing pauperisation of poor women in rural Bangladesh and poverty and women in rural India. (DÜI-Sen)

In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide. This volume challenges th conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the politics of human rights and addresses the future of global feminisms. It is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about human rights and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region