Women in Asia : restoring women to history / by Barbara N. Ramusack and Sharon Sievers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramusack, Barbara N.

Contributor:

Sievers, Sharon L.

Series:

Restoring women to history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Asia--History.

Women.

Women--Asia--Social conditions.

Feminism--Asia.

Feminism.

Social conditions.

History.

Asia.

Physical Description:

li, 266 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1999]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Series Editors' Introduction: Conceptualizing the History of Women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa / Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Margaret Strobel xvii

Part I Women in South and Southeast Asia / Barbara N. Ramusack

Women in South Asia 15

Women in Southeast Asia 77

Part II Women in East Asia / Sharon Sievers

Women in China, Japan, and Korea 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253334810

0253212677

OCLC:

40848668