Format:
Online-Ressource (198 p)
ISBN:
9780415687577
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Content:
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
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Description based upon print version of record
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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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781134666706
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415687577
Additional Edition:
Print version Women in Modern Burma
Language:
English
Keywords:
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