Gender and Power in Affluent Asia

Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relatioships between gender and power that have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence.

Sommario

1: Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia; 2: Indonesian women at work; 3: Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town; 4: Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes; 5: Between compliance and esistance; 6: ‘Flower vase and housewife'; 7: Chinese cultural revivalism; 8: Vietnam's women in the renovation era; 9: ‘Dutiful daughters’, estranged sisters; 10: The gendering of post-war Philippine politics

Info autore

Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens

Riassunto

Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relatioships between gender and power that have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Krishna Sen (Editore), Sen Krishna (Editore), Maila Stivens (Editore), Stivens Maila (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor and Francis
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.04.1998
• EAN: 9780415164726
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16472-6
• Pagine: 340
• Peso: 630 g
• Serie: The New Rich in Asia
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Demologia; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General