Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region : Agencies and Activisms.

This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the Asia-Pacific region.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
Other Authors: Teo, Peggy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Routledge, 2002.
Subjects:
Women > Political activity > Asia > Congresses.
Women > Political activity > Pacific Area > Congresses.
Femmes > Activité politique > Asie > Congrès.
Femmes > Activité politique > Pacifique, Région du > Congrès.
Women > Political activity
Asia
Pacific Area
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: women's agencies and activisms in the Asia-Pacific region; Nine months: women's agency and the pregnant body in Singapore; Body politics in Bangladesh; The politics of resistance: working-class women in rural Taiwan; Negotiating land and livelihood: agency and identities in Indonesia's transmigration programme; Gendered surveillance and sexual violence in Filipina pre-migration experiences to Japan; Resisting history: Indonesian labour activism in the 1990s and the 'Marsinah' case.
  • Contradictory identities and political choices: 'Women in Agriculture' in AustraliaThe complexities of women's agency in Fiji; 'Asia' in everyday life: dealing with difference in contemporary Japan; Sites of transnational activism: Filipino non-government organisations in Hong Kong; Index.

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