ISBN:
0203994175
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9780203994177
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 232 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge international studies of women and place
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender politics in the Asia-Pacific region
DDC:
305.42095
Keywords:
Women Congresses
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Political activity
;
Asia
;
Women Congresses
;
Political activity
;
Pacific Area
;
Asia
;
Pacific Area
;
Women Congresses Political activity
;
Women Congresses Political activity
;
Women Congresses Political activity
;
Women Congresses Political activity
;
Women ; Political activity
;
Conference papers and proceedings
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
;
Asia
;
Pacific Area
;
Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. 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 region. The editors focus attention on the politics of gender as a mobilizing centre for identities, and the ways in which individualized identity politics may be linked to larger collective emancipatory projects based on shared interests, practical needs, or common threats. Collectively, the chapters ill
Abstract:
Introduction : women's agencies and activisms in the Asia-Pacific region /Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang --Nine months : women's agency and the pregnant body in Singapore /Lily Phua and Brenda S.A. Yeoh --Body politics in Bangladesh /Tatijana Haque --The politics of resistance : working-class women in rural Taiwan /Rita S. Gallin --Negotiating land and livelihood : agency and identities in Indonesia's transmigration programme /Rebecca Elmhirst --Gendered surveillance and sexual violence in Filipina pre-migration experiences to Japan /Nobue Suzuki --Resisting history : Indonesian labour activism in the 1990s and the 'Marsinah' case /G.G. Weix --Contradictory identities and political choices : 'women in agriculture' in Australia /Ruth Panelli --The complexities of women's agency in Fiji /Jacqueline Leckie --'Asia' in everyday life : dealing with difference in contemporary Japan /Vera Mackie --Sites of transnational activism : Filipino non-government organisations in Hong Kong /Lisa Law.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
,
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 Australia
,
The 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
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