Women in Asia : tradition, modernity, and globalisation / edited by Louise Edwards & Mina Roces.

Other author Edwards, Louise P.
Other author Roces, Mina, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2000.
Description327 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Women in development--Asia.
Women--Asia. --Social conditions.
Women--Asia. --Economic conditions.
Feminism--Asia.
Sex role--Asia.

Contents Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000 / Mina Roces & Louise Edwards -- Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth century / Maila Stivens -- The status of women in a patriarchal state: the case of Singapore / Jasmine Chan -- Women in the People's Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative / Louise Edwards -- Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- Negotiating modernities: Filipino women 1970-2000 / Mina Roces -- Indonesian women: from Orde Baru to Reformasi / Kathryn Robinson -- Rhetoric or reality?: contesting definitions of women in Korea / Sasha Hampson -- Breaking the patriarchal paradigm: Chinese women in Hong Kong / C. Tang ... [et al.] -- Being women in Japan 1970-2000 / Elise K. Tipton -- Women in Taiwan: linking economic prosperity and women's progress / Lan-hung Nora Chiang -- Exploring women's status in contemporary Thailand / Bhassorn Limanonda -- Militarism, civil war and women's status: a Burma case study / Janell Mills -- Re-gendering Vietnam: from militant to market socialism / Esta Ungar.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00033804
ISBN0472087517 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1240.5.A78 W63 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold