Women in Asia
Subtitle: tradition, modernity, and globalisation
By: edited by Louise Edwards & Mina Roces
Contributors: Edwards, Louise P; Roces, Mina, 1959-
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Women in development -- Asia; Women -- Asia -- Social conditions; Women -- Asia -- Economic conditions; Feminism -- Asia; Sex role -- Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000 / Mina Roces & Louise Edwards; title: Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth century / Maila Stivens; title: The status of women in a patriarchal state: the case of Singapore / Jasmine Chan; title: Women in the People's Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative / Louise Edwards; title: Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase; title: Negotiating modernities: Filipino women 1970-2000 / Mina Roces; title: Indonesian women: from Orde Baru to Reformasi / Kathryn Robinson; title: Rhetoric or reality?: contesting definitions of women in Korea / Sasha Hampson; title: Breaking the patriarchal paradigm: Chinese women in Hong Kong / C. Tang ... [et al.]; title: Being women in Japan 1970-2000 / Elise K. Tipton; title: Women in Taiwan: linking economic prosperity and women's progress / Lan-hung Nora Chiang; title: Exploring women's status in contemporary Thailand / Bhassorn Limanonda; title: Militarism, civil war and women's status: a Burma case study / Janell Mills; title: Re-gendering Vietnam: from militant to market socialism / Esta Ungar