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Women's movements in Asia : feminisms and transnational activism /

"Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women's activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women's movement in 12 countries: the Philipp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Roces, Mina, 1959-, Edwards, Louise P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Asian feminisms : women's movements from the Asian perspective / Mina Roces
  • 2. Feminism and the women's movement in the world's largest Islamic nation / Susan Blackburn
  • 3. Rethinking 'the Filipino woman' : a century of women's activism in the Philippines, 1905-2006 / Mina Roces
  • 4. Chinese feminism in a transnational frame : between internationalism and xenophobia / Louise Edwards
  • 5. Transnational networks and localized campaigns : the women's movement in Singapore / Lenore Lyons
  • 6. Crossing boundaries : transnational feminisms in twentieth-century Japan / Barbara Molony
  • 7. Feminism, Buddhism and transnational women's movements in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk
  • 8. Following the trail of the fairy-bird : the search for a uniquely Vietnamese women's movement / Alessandra Chiricosta
  • 9. The Hong Kong women's movement : towards a politics of difference and diversity / Adelyn Lim
  • 10. Military rule, religious fundamentalism, women's empowerment and feminism in Pakistan / Andrea Fleschenberg
  • 11. Mapping a hundred years of activism : women's movements in Korea / Seung-Kyung Kim and Kyounghee Kim
  • 12. 'Riding a buffalo to cross a muddy field' : heuristic approaches to feminism in Cambodia / Trudy Jacobsen
  • 13. Rights talk and the feminist movement in India / Sumi Madhok.