Women's suffrage in Asia
Subtitle: gender, nationalism and democracy
By: edited by Louise P. Edwards and Mina Roces.
Contributors: Edwards, Louise P.; Roces, Mina, 1959-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Women -- Suffrage -- Asia.; Women -- Asia -- History.
Description: "This book explores the gendered histories of democracy, governance and citizenship is Asia within the context of the global women's suffrage movement. The book analyses women's experiences of politics and their negotiations for greater access to power and representation. It explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the various nationalist historiographies and untangles the connections between culture, religion, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for democratic rights."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Orienting the global women's suffrage movement / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces; title: Is the suffragist an American colonial construct? : defining 'the Filipino woman'; title: In colonial Philippines / Mina Roces; title: Chinese women's campaigns for suffrage : nationalism, Confucianism and political agency / Louise Edwards; title: Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia / Susan Blackburn; title: Women's suffrage in Viêt Nam / Micheline R. Lessard; title: Citizenship and suffrage in interwar Japan / Barbara Molony; title: Expanding their realm : women and public agency in colonial Korea / Ken Wells; title: The politics of women's suffrage in Thailand / Tamara Loos; title: Tradition, law and the female suffrage movement in India / Gail Pearson; title: Settler anxieties, indigenous peoples and women's suffrage in the colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawai'i, 1888 to 1902 / Patricia Grimshaw.