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Women in Modern Burma.

This book challenges the popular notion that Burmese women are powerful and are granted equal rights as men by society. Throughout history Burmese women have been represented as powerful and as having equal status to men by western travellers and scholars alike. National history about women also fol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Than, Tharaphi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables and charts; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Print media and women journalists, editors and writers; 3 Women's education; 4 The creation of the Burma Women's Army; 5 Disbanding the army and communist women; 6 Women and modernity; 7 Marginalized women in the making of the 'Burman' nation; Epilogue; Index.