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Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

Online-Ressource (198 p)

Englisch

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

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Women in Modern Burma

978-0-415-68757-7

978-0-415-68757-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-134-66670-6 ( : 166.06 (NL))

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HQ1735.7 .T43 2013

305.409591 ; 305.4209591     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Women's rights - Burma - History - 21st century

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 follows this conjecture. This book explains why actually very few powerful Burmese women exist, and how these few women help construct the notion of the high status of Burmese women, thereby inevitably silencing the majority of 'unequal' and disempowered women. One of the underlying questions throughou