Women in Asia - Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation

List of contents

Notes on contributors, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, 1. Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000, 2. Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth century, 3. The status of women in a patriarchal state: the case of Singapore, 4. Women in the People's Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative, 5. Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience, 6. Negotiating modernities: Filipino women 1970-2000, 7. Indonesian Women-from Orde Baru to Reformasi, 8. Rhetoric or reality?: contesting definitions of women in Korea, 9. Breaking the patriarchal paradigm: Chinese women in Hong Kong, 10. Being women in Japan 1970-2000, 11. Women in Taiwan: linking economic prosperity and women's progress, 12. Exploring women's status in contemporary Thailand, 13. Militarism, civil war and women's status: a Burma case study, 14. Re-gendering Vietnam: from militant to market socialism, Index, World Wide Web addresses on women in Asia

Summary

A comprehensive coverage of all the major Asian countries by experts in the field.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Edwards, Louise Roces Edwards, Mina Roces
• Assisted by: Louise Edwards (Editor), Edwards Louise (Editor), Mina Roces (Editor), Roces Mina (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367720100
• ISBN: 978-0-367-72010-0
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Sociology, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Sacred Sexuality, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, FICTION / Feminist