Gender and power in affluent Asia

Author(s)

• Sen, Krishna
• Stivens, Maila

Bibliographic Information

Gender and power in affluent Asia

edited by Krishna Sen and Maila Stivens

（New rich in Asia series）

Routledge, 1998

• : hb
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hb ISBN 9780415164719

Description

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

Table of Contents

1. Theorising Gender: power and modernity in affluent Asia 2. Indonesian women at work 3. Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town 4. Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes 5. Women and the 'middle-class' way of life in Singapore 6. 'Flower vase and housewife': Women and consumerism in post-Mao China 7. Chinese cultural revivalism: Changing gender constructions in the Yangtze river delta 8. Vietnam's women in the renovation era 9. 'Dutiful daughters', estranged sisters: Women in Thailand 10. The gendering of post-war Philippine politics.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415164726

Description

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

Table of Contents

• 1: Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia
• 2: Indonesian women at work
• 3: Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town
• 4: Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes
• 5: Between compliance and esistance
• 6: 'Flower vase and housewife'
• 7: Chinese cultural revivalism
• 8: Vietnam's women in the renovation era
• 9: 'Dutiful daughters', estranged sisters
• 10: The gendering of post-war Philippine politics

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Details

• NCID: BA35858801
• ISBN:
  • 0415164710
  • 0415164729
• LCCN: 97027163
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 323 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1745.8
  • DC21 : 305.42/0959
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Asia, Southeastern -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Women -- Asia, Southeastern -- Economic conditions
  • LCSH : Women in development -- Asia, Southeastern
  • LCSH : Middle class -- Asia, Southeastern
  • LCSH : Middle class women -- Asia, Southeastern
  • LCSH : Sex role -- Asia, Southeastern
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA2745610X