Gender and Power in Affluent Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415164726 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 340 str.

Krishna Sen; Kirshna Sen; Maila Stivens

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'It's cutting-edge level of inquiry and reflection makes this book an excellent tool for research and teaching' - Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens