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Title Gender politics in the Asia-Pacific region / edited by Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo, and Shirlena Huang.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages).
text file
Series Routledge international studies of women and place
International studies of women and place.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : women's agencies and activisms in the Asia-Pacific region / Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang -- Nine months : women's agency and the pregnant body in Singapore / Lily Phua and Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- Body politics in Bangladesh / Tatijana Haque -- Politics of resistance : working-class women in rural Taiwan / Rita S. Gallin -- Negotiating land and livelihood : agency and identities in Indonesia's transmigration programme / Rebecca Elmhirst -- Gendered surveillance and sexual violence in Filipina pre-migration experiences to Japan / Nobue Suzuki -- Resisting history : Indonesian labour activism in the 1990s and the 'Marsinah' case / G.G. Weix -- Contradictory identities and political choices : 'women in agriculture' in Australia / Ruth Panelli -- Complexities of women's agency in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie -- 'Asia' in everyday life : dealing with difference in contemporary Japan / Vera Mackie -- Sites of transnational activism : Filipino non-government organisations in Hong Kong / Lisa Law.
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Subject Women -- Political activity -- Asia -- Congresses.
Women -- Political activity.
Asia.
Women -- Political activity -- Pacific Area -- Congresses.
Pacific Area.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
Teo, Peggy.
Huang, Shirlena.
Other Form: Print version: Gender politics in the Asia-Pacific region. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 (DLC) 2002072629
ISBN 0203994175 (electronic book)
9780203994177 (electronic book)
041520660X (Cloth)