Gender and power in affluent Asia / edited by Krishna Sen and Maila Stivens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sen, Krishna.

Stivens, Maila.

Murdoch University.

Series:

New rich in Asia.

The new rich in Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Southeast Asia--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Southeast Asia--Economic conditions.

Women in development--Southeast Asia.

Women in development.

Middle class--Southeast Asia.

Middle class.

Middle class women--Southeast Asia.

Middle class women.

Sex role--Southeast Asia.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relationships between gender and power which have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia; Indonesian women at work: reframing the subject; Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town; Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes; Between compliance and resistance: women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore; 'Flower vase and housewife': women and consumerism in post-Mao China; Chinese cultural revivalism: changing gender constructions in the Yangtze River delta

Vietnam's women in the renovation era'Dutiful daughters', estranged sisters: women in Thailand; The gendering of post-war Philippine politics; Index

Notes:

"This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-71095-X

1-134-71096-8

1-280-31862-7

0-203-44682-8

9780203446829

OCLC:

437078705