Women's Movements in Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Feminisms and Transnational Activism
Redaktion: Roces, Mina; Edwards, Louise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women's activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women's movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Korea, India and Pakistan.

For each of these countries the manner in which feminism changes according to cultural, political, economic and religious factors is explored. The contributors investigate how national feminisms are influenced by transnational factors, such as the women's movements in other countries, colonialism and international agencies. Each chapter also considers what Asian feminists have contributed to global theoretical debates on the woman question, the key successes and failures of the movements and what needs to be addressed in the future.

This breadth of coverage, together with suggestions for further reading and watching, and an integrated cross-national timeline makes Women's Movements in Asia ideal for use on courses looking at women and feminism in Asia. It will appeal both to students and specialists in the fields of gender, women's and Asian studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136967993
• Artikelnr.: 42983811

Autorenporträt

Louise Edwards is Professor of Modern China Studies at the University of Hong Kong. Mina Roces is an Associate Professor in the School of History and Philosophy, The University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Women's Movements from the Asian Perspective Mina Roces
2. Feminism and the Women's Movement in the World's Largest Islamic Nation
Sue Blackburn 3. Rethinking 'the Filipino Woman': A Century of Women's
Activism in the Philippines Mina Roces 4. Chinese Feminism in a
Transnational Frame: Between Internationalism and Xenophobia Louise Edwards
5. Transnational Networks and Localized Campaigns: The Women's Movement in
Singapore Lenore Lyons 6. Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Feminisms in
Twentieth Century Japan Barbara Molony 7. Feminism, Buddhism and
Transnational Women's Movements in Thailand Monica Lindberg Falk 8.
Following the Trail of the Fairy-Bird: The Search for a Uniquely Vietnamese
Women's Movement Alessandra Chiricosta 9. The Hong Kong Women's Movement:
Towards a Politics of Difference and Diversity Adelyn Lim 10. Military
Rule, Religious Fundamentalism, Women Empowerment and Feminism in Pakistan
Andrea Fleschenberg 11. Mapping a Hundred Years of Activism: Women's
Movements in Korea Seung-kyung Kim and Kyounghee Kim 12. 'Riding a Buffalo
Across a Muddy Field': Heuristic Approaches to Feminism in Cambodia Trudy
Jacobsen 13. Rights Talk and the Feminist Movement in India Sumi Madhok