Gender politics in the Asia-Pacific region /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 232 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge international studies of women and place International studies of women and place.
Subject:	Women -- Political activity -- Asia -- Congresses. Women -- Political activity -- Pacific Area -- Congresses. Women -- Political activity. Asia. Pacific Area. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11299389

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Other authors / contributors:	Yeoh, Brenda S. A. Teo, Peggy. Huang, Shirlena.
ISBN:	0203994175 9780203994177 041520660X 1134624514 9781134624515 1280115912 9781280115912 9786610115914 6610115915
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Gender politics in the Asia-Pacific region. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002

Table of Contents:

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.

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