ISBN:
0415191734
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 240 S
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in Asia Pacific studies 5 [i.e. 4]
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies
DDC:
323.34095
Keywords:
Human rights Asia
;
Human rights Pacific Area
;
Women's rights Asia
;
Women Asia
;
Social conditions
;
Women Pacific Area
;
Social conditions
;
Women s rights Pacific Area
;
Menschenrechtspolitik
;
Emanzipation
;
Frauenpolitik
;
Menschenrecht
;
Frau
;
Asien
;
Pazifischer Raum
;
Südostasien
;
Ostasien
;
Women's rights
;
Pacific Area
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum
;
Menschenrechtspolitik
;
Frauenpolitik
Description / Table of Contents:
Stivens, Maila: Introduction: Gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific. Mackie, Vera: Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse. The emergence of the military prostitution issue. Ram, Kalpana: The state and the women's movement. Instabilities in the discourse of "rights" in India. Finnane, Antonia: Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China. Sen, Krishna: The human rights of gendered citizens. Notes from Indonesia. Jolly, Margaret: Woman ikat raet long human raet o no? Women's rights, human rights, and domestic violence in Vanuatu. Macintyre, Martha: "Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea¦" Melanesian women and human rights. Hilsdon, Anne-Marie: The contemplacion fiasco. The hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore. Langer, Beryl: Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora. Globalization and human rights. Altman, Dennis: The emergence of "modern" gay identities and the question of human rights.
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