Gender and global politics in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

D'Costa, Bina.

Lee-Koo, Katrina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Asia.

Women.

Women--Political activity.

Geopolitics.

Asia.

Women--Political activity--Pacific Area.

Pacific Area.

Geopolitics--Asia.

Geopolitics--Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

xviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Contents:

Preface : how Jindy Pettman redrew my mental map / Cynthia Enloe

Critical feminist international relations in the Asia-Pacific / Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo

"Worlding women" in international law / Hilary Charlesworth

Gendered economies in the Asia-Pacific / V. Spike Peterson

The "kitsch" of war : misappropriating Sun Tzu for an American imperial hypermasculinity / Ching-Chane Hwang and L.H.M. Ling

When the UN "succeeds" : the case of Cambodia / Sandra Whitworth

Feminizing global governance / Shirin M. Rai

Confessions of a failed feminist IR scholar : feminist methodologies in practice in Peshawar / Anne McNevin

One woman's everyday resistance : an empowering yet cautionary tale from Vietnam / Kim Huynh

Women's engagement with Islam in South and Southeast Asia / Shakira Hussein

Gender mainstreaming in a post-conflict state : toward democratic peace in Timor-Leste? / Nina Hall and Jacqui True

Shifting terrains of transnational engagement : women's organizing in Fiji / Nicole George

Reclaiming Pacific Island regionalism : does neoliberalism have to reign? / Claire Slatter and Yvonne Underhill-Sem

A feminist politics of region? : reflecting and revisioning IR from Asia and the Pacific / Jindy Pettman

Afterword / J. Ann Tickner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-259) and index.

ISBN:

0230611605

9780230611603

OCLC:

226357087

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