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"Research on women and food security in Southeast Asia has been limited. The collection of chapters in Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia is one of the first attempts at providing a lens into the linkages between women and food security at the household, community, national and transnational levels. More broadly, the chapters examine women's contribution to the food security of households, resource distribution to produce food, and the purchasing power to buy food. In analysing the various facets to food security in relation to gender, the analyses focus on women and food security within the meanings of "private" and "public", and the extent to which the effects of the two spheres spill over into each other. Given women's critical role in food and agricultural production and provision, Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia assesses the structural forces that enable women to access productive resources and, in turn, ensure sustainable strategies for food security at the household level."--

"This book aims to contribute to the discourse on women and politics in Southeast Asia. The chapters, covering Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Singapore, analyse the asymmetrical power relationships between the sexes and how power differentials between men and women play out in the realm of politics are a reflection of the power contestations women face with men in other spheres of everyday life. Each chapter seeks to ask a different question in terms of where women viz. men stand in the political landscape of their countries, in an effort to answer the question of "Where are the women" in the gender trope in Asian politics. While the chapters are primarily empirical as they delve into the challenges, contradictions and conflicts Southeast Asian women encounter, the main assertion is that women's struggles in the realm of politics are a result of having to operate within power structures created principally by men, thereby producing barriers for women to enter politics, on the one hand, and to increase their numbers and widen their sphere of influence, on the other. Recognizing that Asian politics is dominated by men, the question of how women have negotiated a value system that is inherently male-centred and male-controlled is also discussed. The implicit narrative demonstrated in this book is that the political arena should not be considered in isolation from other arenas but instead is essentially a mirror of other arenas - whether the home, workplace, nation, and/or global spaces -each marked by power contestations between men and women and having a spill-over effect on the other, as well as shaping women's experiences in the political realm"--

This book examines common themes related to gender and ageing in countries in Southeast Asia. Derived from quantitative or qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, the chapters reveal how ageing has become tempered by globalization, cultural values, family structures, women's emancipation and empowerment, social networks, government policies, and religion. The chapters are concerned primarily with the following questions related to gender and ageing: (a) how do women and men expe

Legal mechanisms for protecting women's rights / Theresa W. Devasahayam -- The women's charter, 1961 / Ann Wee -- Significant provisions in the women's charter / Leong Wai Kum -- A lawyer's perspective on how divorces view the women's charter / Ellen Lee -- The morning after, understanding and exploring the psychosocial impact of women's charter on families experiencing domestic violence / Sudha Nair -- Some thoughts on protecting women's rights in the family and beyond / Theresa W. Devasahayam

"Der Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen in der Politik und setzt sie in Beziehung zu den Themen, über die im Parlament debattiert wird. Damit werden zwei Ziele verfolgt: Zum einen wird gefragt, ob die weiblichen Abgeordneten des aktuellen Parlaments in Singapur andere politische Interessen verfolgen als ihre Kollegen. Zum anderen wird ein breiterer Kontext mit Blick auf die Frage betrachtet, ob weibliche und männliche Abgeordnete ein unterschiedliches Rollenverständnis haben. Auf Basis einer Untersuchung der Themen, die männliche und weibliche Abgeordnete im Parlament aufwerfen und diskutieren, wird argumentiert, dass die Kohorte der weiblichen Abgeordneten innerhalb eines maskulinen Paradigmas operiert und sie deshalb dazu tendieren, ihre Stimme nicht ausschließlich dann zu erheben, wenn es um Themen geht, die traditionell als 'Frauenthemen' gelten. Vielmehr äußern sie sich zu einer ganzen Bandbreite von Themen. Indem sie sich nicht auf 'Frauenthemen' beschränken, wird deutlich, dass sie sich als gleichgestellt und fähig sehen, zu jedwedem Thema etwas zu sagen. Unter den weiblichen Abgeordneten in Singapur besteht ein implizites Verständnis darüber, dass sie aufgrund ihrer Fähigkeiten - eher als aufgrund ihres Geschlechts - ins Parlament gewählt wurden und der Gemeinschaft dienen, um den Zielen ihrer Parteien gerecht zu werden." (Autorenreferat)

The concept of emotional labour has largely emerged from the analysis of organizations in the West. However, little has been written about the issue of what defines emotional labour and how it is configured in different cultural contexts. This book addresses this gap in the literature and considers how, and in what ways, emotional labour characterises formal and informal work environments in Southeast Asia.

The chapters in this book are an assembly of commentaries by a distinguished team of specialists on the social impact of the Singapore Women's Charter on women and men. The Women's Charter is the main legislation protecting women's rights in the context of the family in Singapore. Highlights of this book include the reasons for the significance of legislation to protect women's rights in marriage; how the legislation came about; case studies from Southeast Asia; how the Singapore Women's Charter evolved and became established; how the Charter goes beyond protecting women's rights by reinforcing men's and women's obligations and duties in a marital partnership; how the Charter has come to be perceived by men and women especially in its enforcement in the context of divorce; and the social repercussions of the Charter on the family in its application. There has been ongoing discussion on the implications of the Charter on the lives of Singaporean women and men for some years since its implementation. The purpose of this book is to enrich our understanding of this legislation further – its objectives, efficacy and shortfalls

Gender trends in Southeast Asia : women now, women in the future -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Message: Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Women in Southeast Asia: Changes and Continuities by Theresa W. Devasahayam -- 2. Women, Marriage and Family in Southeast Asia by Gavin W. Jones -- 3. Gender Trends in Migration and Employment in Southeast Asia by Bernadette P. Resurreccion -- 4. Has Gender Analysis Been Mainstreamed in The Study of Southeast Asian Politics? by Susan Blackburn -- 5. Gender Mainstreaming in Health: Mainstream or "Off-Stream"? by Rashidah Shuib -- 6. Politicization of Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia: Women's Rights and Inter-Religious Relations by Maznah Mohamad -- Index.

As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. In exploring the progress made by Southeast Asian men and women, this book seeks to answer the following questions: (a) In what areas have women been able to achieve parity with men? (b) In what areas do women encounter specific disadvantages based on their gender as compared with men? and (c) How have women's concerns and problems been addressed by the governments in this region with the aim of encouraging gender equality? As the title of this book suggests, the chapters provide an analysis of the broad trends - including changes and continuities - in the experiences, interests and concerns of Southeast Asian women. The chapters examine the trends related to women in the following arenas: the family, economic participation, politics, health, and religion. In some arenas, the trends reflect the disadvantages women face, which in turn have led to gender gaps; in other areas, women's progress has been found to eclipse that of the men, although this tends to be the exception

This paper describes foreign domestic workers' (FDWs) vulnerability in Singapore. Due to the lack of regulatory laws mandating employers to pay health care costs and FDW ineligibility for national plans given their transient contract labor status, FDWs depend on employer generosity to provide for this need. Presently, the state's interest only includes particular aspects of FDW "health." The argument here is that the discourse of perceiving FDWs as sexual 'bodies' and transmitters of other infectious diseases is a metaphor for how the state perceives them — useful to Singapore for economic gains as long as they do not bring on costs.