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Title:

Gender politics in Asia : women manoeuvring within dominant gender orders / edited by Wil Burghoorn ... [et al.].

Publisher:

NIAS Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women--Asia--Social conditions.
Sex role--Asia.
Sex discrimination against women--Asia.
Women--Political activity--Asia.

Other Authors:

Lundström-Burghoorn, Wil, 1947-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Women, citizenship and the politics of dress in twentieth-century Philippines / Mina Roces -- Community-based movements of Japanese women : how mothers infiltrate the political sphere from below / Mikiko Eto -- Healing bodies of thought : the state of gender in the Sathya Sai Baba movement in Malaysia / Alexandra Kent -- Gender and religious legitimacy in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- Consciousness-raising among and beyond women's movement activists in China / Cecilia Milwertz and Bu Wei -- Organizing for change and empowerment : the women mayors' association in China / Qi Wang -- 'No fire in the belly' : women's political role in Singapore / Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew.

Series:

Gendering Asia ; no. 3

ISBN:

8776940152 (pbk.)
9788776940157 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)237052265

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)