This book presents a historical overview of the Indonesian lm industry, the relationship between censorship and representation, and the rise of women lmmakers in the post-New Order period. It considers scholarship on gender in Indonesian cinema through the lens of power relations. Examining key themes such as nationalism, women's rights, polygamy, and terrorism which have preoccupied local filmmakers for decades, it resonates with the socio-political changes and upheavals in Indonesia s modern history and projects images of the nation through the debates on gender and Islam. The text also...
This book presents a historical overview of the Indonesian lm industry, the relationship between censorship and representation, and the rise of women ...
This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex couples in other countries. This ambivalence has a strong influence on their relational decisions as they deal with contradictions between family ties, filial piety and lesbianism.
Based on individual and couple interviews with self-identified lesbian couples in stable relationships, the book offers vivid narratives of different ways...
This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working...
This text addresses the Philippines' historical and contemporary reproductive politics, offering a timely insight into the rich reproductive lives of Filipinos.
This text addresses the Philippines' historical and contemporary reproductive politics, offering a timely insight into the rich reproductive lives of ...
This book considers a burgeoning social phenomenon, compensated dating in Hong Kong, that facilitates direct commercial sex exchange between consenting females from their mid-teens through the late 20s and males from their early 20s to mid-adulthood.
This book considers a burgeoning social phenomenon, compensated dating in Hong Kong, that facilitates direct commercial sex exchange between consentin...
This book explores professional women's experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative social culture.
This book explores professional women's experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's econ...
Offering cutting edge accounts of the production of Islamic cinema, this new book considers gendered dimensions of Islamic media creation which further enrich the representations of the 'religious' and the 'Islamic' in the everyday lives of Muslims in South East Asia.
Offering cutting edge accounts of the production of Islamic cinema, this new book considers gendered dimensions of Islamic media creation which furthe...