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Title:

Women in Asia : tradition, modernity, and globalisation / edited by Louise Edwards & Mina Roces.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

327 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Women in development--Asia.
Women--Asia--Social conditions.
Women--Asia--Economic conditions.
Feminism--Asia.
Sex role--Asia.

Other Authors:

Edwards, Louise P.
Roces, Mina, 1959-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000 / Mina Roces & Louise Edwards -- Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth century / Maila Stivens -- The status of women in a patriarchal state: the case of Singapore / Jasmine Chan -- Women in the People's Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative / Louise Edwards -- Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- Negotiating modernities: Filipino women 1970-2000 / Mina Roces -- Indonesian women: from Orde Baru to Reformasi / Kathryn Robinson -- Rhetoric or reality?: contesting definitions of women in Korea / Sasha Hampson -- Breaking the patriarchal paradigm: Chinese women in Hong Kong / C. Tang ... [et al.] -- Being women in Japan 1970-2000 / Elise K. Tipton -- Women in Taiwan: linking economic prosperity and women's progress / Lan-hung Nora Chiang -- Exploring women's status in contemporary Thailand / Bhassorn Limanonda -- Militarism, civil war and women's status: a Burma case study / Janell Mills -- Re-gendering Vietnam: from militant to market socialism / Esta Ungar.

ISBN:

9780472087518 (pbk.)
0472087517 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43992500

LCCN:

00033804

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)