Gender and global politics in the Asia-Pacific
By: edited by Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo.
Contributors: D'Costa, Bina.; Lee-Koo, Katrina.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Women in politics -- Asia; Women in politics -- Pacific Area; Geopolitics -- Asia; Geopolitics -- Pacific Area
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : how Jindy Pettman redraw my mental map / Cynthia Enloe; title: Critical feminist international relations in the Asia-Pacific / Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo; title: "Worlding women" in international law / Hilary Charlesworth; title: Gendered economies in the Asia-Pacific / V. Spike Peterson; title: The kitsch of war : misappropriating Sun Tzu for an American imperial hypermasculinity / Ching-Chane Hwang and L.H.M. Ling; title: When the UN "succeeds" : the case of Cambodia / Sandra Whitworth; title: Feminizing global governance / Shirin Rai; title: Confessions of a failed feminist IR scholar : feminist methodologies in practice in Peshawar / Anne McNevin; title: One woman's everyday resistance : an empowering, yet cautionary, tale from Vietnam / Kim Huynh; title: Women's engagement with Islam in South and South-East Asia / Shakira Hussein; title: Gender mainstreaming in a post-conflict state : toward democratic peace in Timor Leste? / Nina Hall and Jacqui True; title: Shifting terrains of transnational engagement : women's organizing in Fiji / Nicole George; title: Re-claiming Pacific Island regionalism : does neo-liberalism have to reign? / Claire Slatter and Yvonne Underhill-Sem; title: A feminist politics of region? : reflecting and re-visioning IR from Asia and the Pacific / Jindy Pettman; title: Afterword / J. Ann Tickner.