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Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements

Author : Susan Blackburn
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971696746
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements written by Susan Blackburn and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little - if any - mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements makes a strong case for the significance of women's involvement in nationalist movements and for the diverse impact of those movements on the lives of individual women activists. Some of the 12 women whose political activities are discussed in this volume are well known, while others are not. Some of them participated in armed struggles, while others pursued peaceful ways of achieving national independence. The authors show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. They also illustrate the constraints imposed on them by wider social and political structures, and show what it was like to live as a political activist in different times and places. Fully documented and drawing on wider scholarship, this book will be of interest to students of Southeast Asian history and politics as well as readers with a particular interest in women, nationalism and political activism.

Gender Trends in Southeast Asia

Author : Theresa W. Devasahayam
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812309551
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Gender Trends in Southeast Asia written by Theresa W. Devasahayam and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. In exploring the progress made by Southeast Asian men and women, this book seeks to answer the following questions: (a) In what areas have women been able to achieve parity with men? (b) In what areas do women encounter specific disadvantages based on their gender as compared with men? and (c) How have womens concerns and problems been addressed by the governments in this region with the aim of encouraging gender equality? As the title of this book suggests, the chapters provide an analysis of the broad trends - including changes and continuities - in the experiences, interests and concerns of Southeast Asian women. The chapters examine the trends related to women in the following arenas: the family, economic participation, politics, health, and religion. In some arenas, the trends reflect the disadvantages women face, which in turn have led to gender gaps; in other areas, women's progress has been found to eclipse that of the men, although this tends to be the exception.

Women of Southeast Asia

Author : Penny Van Esterik
Publisher : Southeast Asia Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Women of Southeast Asia written by Penny Van Esterik and published by Southeast Asia Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Flaming Womb

Author : Barbara Watson Andaya
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864727
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Flaming Womb written by Barbara Watson Andaya and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male–female relations in Southeast Asia is central to arguments claiming a coherent identity for the region. This challenging work by senior scholar Barbara Watson Andaya considers such contradictions while offering a thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women’s roles and perceptions. Andaya explores the broad themes of the early modern era (1500–1800)—the introduction of new religions, major economic shifts, changing patterns of state control, the impact of elite lifestyles and behaviors—drawing on an extraordinary range of sources and citing numerous examples from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine, and Malay societies. In the process, she provides a timely and innovative model for putting women back into world history Andaya approaches the problematic issue of "Southeast Asia" by considering ways in which topography helped describe a geo-cultural zone and contributed to regional distinctiveness in gender construction. She examines the degree to which world religions have been instrumental in (re)constructing conceptions of gender— an issue especially pertinent to Southeast Asian societies because of the leading role so often played by women in indigenous ritual. She also considers the effects of the expansion of long-distance trade, the incorporation of the region into a global trading network, the beginnings of cash-cropping and wage labor, and the increase in slavery on the position of women. Erudite, nuanced, and accessible, The Flaming Womb makes a major contribution to a Southeast Asia history that is both regional and global in content and perspective.

Women Warriors in Southeast Asia

Author : Tobias Rettig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781317571858
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Women Warriors in Southeast Asia written by Tobias Rettig and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times. Using a number of sources, including royal chronicles, diaries, memoirs and interviews, the book discusses why women warriors were active in a domain traditionally preserved for men, and how they arguably transgressed peacetime gender boundaries as agents of violence. From multidisciplinary perspectives, the chapters assess what drove women to take on a variety of roles, namely palace guards, guerrillas and war leaders, and to what extent their experiences were different to those of men. The reader is taken on an almost 1,500-year long journey through a crossroads region well-known for the diversity of its peoples and cultures, but also their ability to creatively graft foreign ideas onto existing ones. The book also explores the re-integration of women into post-conflict Southeast Asian societies, including the impact (or lack thereof) of newly established international norms, and the frequent turn towards pre-conflict gender roles in these societies. Written by an international team of scholars, this book will be of interest to academics working on Southeast Asian Studies, Gender Studies, low-intensity conflicts and revolutions, and War, Conflict, and Peace Studies.

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Author : Adeline Koh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131766292X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia written by Adeline Koh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of gender and sexuality in their societies. This is the first book to discuss a range of discourses around gender in these two countries. Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture of both nations. It examines the discursive construction of gender, sexuality and representation in a variety of areas, including the politics of everyday life, education, popular culture, literature, film, theatre and photography. Chapters examine a range of tropes such as the Orientalist "Sarong Party Girl," the iconic "Singapore Girl" of Singapore Airlines, and the figure of pious Muslim femininity celebrated by Malaysian NGO IMAN, all of which play important roles in delineating limitations for gender roles. The collection also draws attention to resistance to these gender boundaries in theatre, film, blogs and social media, and pedagogy. Bringing together research from a variety of humanistic and social science fields, such as film, material culture, semiotics, literature and pedagogy, the book is a comprehensive feminist survey that will be of use for students and scholars of Women’s Studies and Asian Studies, as well as on courses on gender, media and popular culture in Asia.

The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back

Author : Grace V. S. Chin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811070652
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back written by Grace V. S. Chin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of gender, identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Bringing to light the selected works of overlooked local women writers and providing new analyses of those produced by internationally-known women authors and artists, the essays situate regional literary developments within historicized geopolitical landscapes to offer incisive analyses and readings on how women and the feminine are imagined, represented, and positioned in relation to the Southeast Asian nation.The book, which features both cross-country comparative analyses and country-specific investigations, also considers the ideas of the nation and the state by investigating related ideologies, rhetoric, apparatuses, and discourses, and the ways in which they affect women’s bodies, subjectivities, and lived realities in both historical and contemporary Southeast Asian contexts. By considering how these literary expressions critique, contest, or are complicit in nationalist projects and state-mandated agendas, the collection contributes to the overall regional and comparative discourses on gender, identity and nation in Southeast Asian studies.

Women in Southeast Asia

Author : Surajit Kumar Bhagowati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788177083743
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Women in Southeast Asia written by Surajit Kumar Bhagowati and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 11 countries (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Timor, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei) of Southeast Asia include over 600 million people. Despite great linguistic and cultural diversity, the region is characterized by the relatively favorable position of women in comparison with neighboring East Asia or South Asia. The position of women in Southeast Asia is often cited as evidence that women are not universally subjugated to men. In the context of women's status, this book examines the social system in Southeast Asia during the pre-colonial, colonial, and modern periods. The book first explains the geography of the region and describes the role of women in relation to men. Further chapters are devoted to the individual countries of the region. The book also includes two appendices: one describing the eminent women who have influenced the social, political, and cultural lives of Southeast Asia; and the other narrating the harrowing tales of comfort stations run by the Japanese Imperial Forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Pacific War/World War II (1941-1945). [Subject: Southeast Asian Studies, Sociology, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, History]

Women of Asia

Author : Mehrangiz Najafizadeh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315458438
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Women of Asia written by Mehrangiz Najafizadeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With thirty-two original chapters reflecting cutting edge content throughout developed and developing Asia, Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity is a comprehensive anthology that contributes significantly to understanding globalization’s transformative process and the resulting detrimental and beneficial consequences for women in the four major geographic regions of Asia—East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Eurasia/Central Asia—as it gives "voice" to women and provides innovative ways through which salient understudied issues pertaining to Asian women’s situation are brought to the forefront.

Male and Female in Developing South-East Asia

Author : Wazir-Jahan Begum Karim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Male and Female in Developing South-East Asia written by Wazir-Jahan Begum Karim and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1995-07-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Western perceptions of gender relations in Southeast Asia, highlighting the area's ethnic and cultural variance and showing how women and men explain the informal and psychological dimension of relationships as vital in holding family, neighbourho

Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia

Author : Susanne Schroeter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242929
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia written by Susanne Schroeter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as current gender policies in Islamic Southeast Asia and contributes on current debates on gender and Islam.

Social Institutions and Gender Index SIGI 2021 Regional Report for Southeast Asia

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264534946
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Social Institutions and Gender Index SIGI 2021 Regional Report for Southeast Asia written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving gender equality and tackling discriminatory laws, social norms and practices set a direct path toward a more inclusive economy and society. The SIGI 2021 Regional Report for Southeast Asia provides new evidence-based analysis on the setbacks and progress in achieving gender equality between 2014 and 2019 in 11 countries.

Women in Asia

Author : Barbara N. Ramusack
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253212672
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Women in Asia written by Barbara N. Ramusack and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara N. Ramusack writes on South and Southeast Asia, surveying both the prescriptive roles and the lived experiences of women, as well as the construction of gender from early states to the 1990s. Although both regions are home to Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim religious traditions and had extended trade relations, they reveal striking differences in the status and roles of women and the processes of cultural adaptation. Sharon Sievers presents an verview of women's participation in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the modern period that provides a framework for incorporating women into world history classrooms. It offers analyses on major issues derived from recent research and discusses such stereotypical cultural practices as footbinding (long seen as "exotic" in the West) in the context of women's lives. Book jacket.

Bewitching Women, Pious Men

Author : Aihwa Ong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915348
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Bewitching Women, Pious Men written by Aihwa Ong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-09-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects with local, national, and transnational forms of knowledge and power. Contributors cut across disciplinary boundaries and draw on fresh fieldwork and textual analysis, including newspaper accounts, radio reports, and feminist writing. Their subjects range widely: the writings of feminist Filipinas; Thai stories of widow ghosts; eye-witness accounts of a beheading; narratives of bewitching genitals, recalcitrant husbands, and market women as femmes fatales. Geographically, the essays cover Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The essays bring to this region the theoretical insights of gender theory, political economy, and cultural studies. Gender and other forms of inequality and difference emerge as changing systems of symbols and meanings. Bodies are explored as sites of political, economic, and cultural transformation. The issues raised in these pages make important connections between behavior, bodies, domination, and resistance in this dynamic and vibrant region.

Other Pasts

Author : Barbara Watson Andaya
Publisher : University of Hawaii, Center for South Asian Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Other Pasts written by Barbara Watson Andaya and published by University of Hawaii, Center for South Asian Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical study of women and gender in Southeast Asia has received relatively little attention, despite the fact that "female autonomy" is often cited as a distinguishing feature of the region. This pioneering collection brings together a number of international scholars distinguished by their knowledge of relevant primary sources and their willingness to ask new questions and apply new methodologies. Often challenging established generalizations, the essays highlight the changes and continuities in gender roles. Offering both a specialist and comparative perspective, the book will appeal to students as well as more senior scholars working on Southeast Asia, and will provide a useful supplement for cross-cultural courses on women and gender constructions.

Male and Female in Developing South-East Asia

Author : Karim Wazir Wazir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323307
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Male and Female in Developing South-East Asia written by Karim Wazir Wazir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book seeks to redress inaccuracies in Western perceptions of gender relations in Southeast Asia by bringing to the fore the area's ethnic and cultural variance and showing how women and men explain the informal and psychological dimensions of relationships as vital in holding family, neighbourhood and kinship ties together. Although there are differences between male and female perceptions of sex roles in society, women perceive their situation as disadvantaged rather than less significant. Male-female interpretations of power and status tend to converge usually towards the understanding that the contributions of men and women are equally important in the formation of family and society.

International Marriages and Marital Citizenship

Author : Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315446340
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book International Marriages and Marital Citizenship written by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their control over human migration. Focusing on the case of Southeast Asian women who have been epitomized on the global marriage market as ‘ideal’ brides and wives, this volume examines these women’s experiences of international marriage, migration, and states' governmentality. Drawing from ethnographic research and policy analyses, this book sheds light on the way many countries in Southeast Asia and beyond have redefined marriage and national belonging through their regime of ‘marital citizenship’ (that is, a legal status granted by a state to a migrant by virtue of his/her marriage to one of its citizens). These regimes influence the familial and social incorporation of Southeast Asian migrant women, notably their access to socio-political and civic rights in their receiving countries. The case studies analysed in this volume highlight these women’s subjectivity and agency as they embrace, resist, and navigate the intricate legal and socio-cultural frameworks of citizenship. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, socio-legal scholars, and anthropologists with interests in migration, family formation, intimate relations, and gender.