Gender Politics In Asia

Author : Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Peggy Teo,Shirlena Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134624508

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Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region by Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Peggy Teo,Shirlena Huang Pdf

Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the region. The editors focus attention on the politics of gender as a mobilizing centre for identities, and the ways in which individualized identity politics may be linked to larger collective emancipatory projects based on shared interests, practical needs, or common threats. Collectively, the chapters illustrate the complexity of women's strategies, the diversity of sites for action, and the flexibility of their alliances as they carve out niches for themselves in what are still largely patriarchal worlds. This book will be of vital interest to scholars in a range of subjects, including gender studies, human geography, women's studies, Asian studies, sociology and anthropology.

Author : Tiantian Zheng
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824852962

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Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia by Tiantian Zheng Pdf

In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings and micro-politics of family structure, gender relationships, intimate romance, transactional sex, and sexual behaviors? This volume offers up-to-date, grounded, critical analysis of the complex intersections of gender, sexuality, and political economy across a diverse array of Asian societies: China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Taiwan. Based on intense ethnographic fieldwork, the chapters disentangle the ways in which gendered and sexual experiences are impinged upon by state policies, economic realities, cultural ideologies, and social hierarchies. Whether highlighting intimate relationships between elite businessmen and their mistresses in China; nightclub performances by Thai men in Bangkok; single women’s views of romance, motherhood, and marriage in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo; or male same-sex relationships in Pakistan—each chapter centers around the stories of the gendered subjects themselves and how they are shaped by outside forces. Taken together they provide a provocative entrée into the cultural politics of gender and sexuality in Asia. By foregrounding cross-cultural ethnographic research, this volume sheds light on how configurations of gender and sexuality are constituted, negotiated, contested, transformed, and at times, perpetuated and reproduced in private, intimate experiences. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and women’s and LGBTQ studies.

Author : Anne-Marie Hilsdon,Martha Macintyre,Vera Mackie,Maila Stivens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9780415191746

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Human Rights and Gender Politics by Anne-Marie Hilsdon,Martha Macintyre,Vera Mackie,Maila Stivens Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kazuki Iwanaga
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788776940164

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Women's Political Participation and Representation in Asia by Kazuki Iwanaga Pdf

The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But there is a marked lack of relevant research as well as of comprehensive and user-friendly texts. Aiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.

Author : Wil Lundström-Burghoorn
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788776940157

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Gender Politics in Asia by Wil Lundström-Burghoorn Pdf

"This book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and women’s strategies to negotiate and change gender relations individually or collectively. A comprehensive volume of gender politics in China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia, it examines multiple aspects of gender politics in Asia (dress, healing, religious ordination, NGO activism, etc.), bringing interdisciplinary approaches of inquiry based on in-depth empirical data."--pub. desc.

Author : Christa Hämmerle
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 3412201405

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Gender Politics in Central Asia by Christa Hämmerle Pdf

Author : Burghoorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:847216070

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Gender Politics in Asia by Burghoorn Pdf

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman,Syeda Lasna Kabir,M. Mahfuzul Haque
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030360122

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Gender Mainstreaming in Politics, Administration and Development in South Asia by Ishtiaq Jamil,Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman,Syeda Lasna Kabir,M. Mahfuzul Haque Pdf

This book explores and analyzes gender mainstreaming in South Asia. Gender mainstreaming as a concept is about removing disparities between men and women – about equal access to resources, inclusion and participation in the public sphere, representation in government, and empowerment, all with the aim of achieving equal opportunities for men and women in family life, society, administration, politics, and the economy. The challenges of gender mainstreaming in South Asia are huge, especially in the contexts of patriarchal, religious, and caste-based social norms and values. Men’s dominance in politics, administration, and economic activities is distinctly visible. Women have been subservient to the policy preferences of their male counterparts. However, in recent years, more women are participating in politics at the local and national levels, in administration, and in formal economic activities. Have gender equality and equity been ensured in South Asia? This book focuses on how gender-related issues are incorporated into policy formulation and governance, how they have fared, what challenges they have encountered when these policies were put into practice, and their implications and fate in the context of five South Asian countries. The authors have used varied frameworks to analyze gender mainstreaming at the micro and macro levels. Written from public administration and political science perspectives, the book provides an overview of the possibilities and constraints of gender mainstreaming in a region, which is not only diverse in ethnicity and religion, but also in economic progress, political culture, and the state of governance.

Author : Aazar Ayaz,Andrea Fleschenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015080870986

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The Gender Face of Asian Politics by Aazar Ayaz,Andrea Fleschenberg Pdf

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Women and Politics, held at Islamabad during 24-25 November 2005.

Author : Andrea Fleschenberg,Claudia Derichs
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643900999

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Women and Politics in Asia by Andrea Fleschenberg,Claudia Derichs Pdf

Why study the nexus of gender, politics, and democracy in Asia? What kind of democracy and political participation can we conceptualize and identify for this heterogeneous region? In the increasingly visible Asian context, which concepts, contexts, discourses, and practices do we need to reflect upon most in order to understand the complex relationship between gender and democratic processes? The contributions in this book engage with precisely these crucial questions, and do so by drawing on a variety of case studies covering India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Cambodia. In the process, they scrutinize women's roles, strategies, practices, and discourses on political participation and gender-inclusive political reform in various arenas of political engagement. The book's essays range from studies of political actors and institutions, public policy and gender mainstreaming, political theory and citizenship discourses, to the study of various women's movements. (Series: Politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven - Vol. 15)

Author : Michael G. Peletz
Publisher : Association for Asian Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0924304812

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Gender, Sexuality, and Body Politics in Modern Asia by Michael G. Peletz Pdf

Dynamics of gender and sexuality -- Bodies, pleasures, and desires : transgender practices, same-sex relations, and heteronormative sexualities -- Bodies on the line

Author : Siumi Maria Tam,Wai Ching Angela Wong,Danning Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134738878

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Gender and Family in East Asia by Siumi Maria Tam,Wai Ching Angela Wong,Danning Wang Pdf

The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed, modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women’s education levels and participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet, despite the process of modernization, traditional systems such as Confucianism and patriarchal rules, continue to shape gender politics and family relationships in East Asia. This book examines gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization have brought to the region, and the structural restrictions that women in East Asian societies continue to face in their daily lives. Across three sections, the contributors to this volume focus on marriage and motherhood, religion and family, and migration. In doing so, they reveal how actions and decisions implemented by the state trigger changes in gender and family at the local level, the impact of increasing internal and transnational migration on East Asian culture, and how religion interweaves with the state in shaping gender dynamics and daily life within the family. With case studies from across the region, including South Korea, Japan, mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology and social policy.

Author : Theresa W Devasahayam
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782845225

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Women and Politics in Southeast Asia by Theresa W Devasahayam Pdf

This book aims to contribute to the discourse on women and politics in Southeast Asia. The chapters, covering Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Singapore, analyse the asymmetrical power relationships between the sexes and how power differentials between men and women play out in the realm of politics are a reflection of the power contestations women face with men in other spheres of everyday life. Each chapter seeks to ask a different question in terms of where women viz. men stand in the political landscape of their countries, in an effort to answer the question of Where are the women in the gender trope in Asian politics. While the chapters are primarily empirical as they delve into the challenges, contradictions and conflicts Southeast Asian women encounter, the main assertion is that womens struggles in the realm of politics are a result of having to operate within power structures created principally by men, thereby producing barriers for women to enter politics, on the one hand, and to increase their numbers and widen their sphere of influence, on the other. Recognizing that Asian politics is dominated by men, the question of how women have negotiated a value system that is inherently male-centred and male-controlled is also discussed. The implicit narrative demonstrated in this book is that the political arena should not be considered in isolation from other arenas but instead is essentially a mirror of other arenas whether the home, workplace, nation, and/or global spaces each marked by power contestations between men and women and having a spill-over effect on the other, as well as shaping womens experiences in the political realm.

Author : Adeline Koh,Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317662914

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Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia by Adeline Koh,Yu-Mei Balasingamchow Pdf

Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of gender and sexuality in their societies. This is the first book to discuss a range of discourses around gender in these two countries. Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia seeks to give an overview of how gender and representation come together in various configurations in the history and contemporary culture of both nations. It examines the discursive construction of gender, sexuality and representation in a variety of areas, including the politics of everyday life, education, popular culture, literature, film, theatre and photography. Chapters examine a range of tropes such as the Orientalist "Sarong Party Girl," the iconic "Singapore Girl" of Singapore Airlines, and the figure of pious Muslim femininity celebrated by Malaysian NGO IMAN, all of which play important roles in delineating limitations for gender roles. The collection also draws attention to resistance to these gender boundaries in theatre, film, blogs and social media, and pedagogy. Bringing together research from a variety of humanistic and social science fields, such as film, material culture, semiotics, literature and pedagogy, the book is a comprehensive feminist survey that will be of use for students and scholars of Women’s Studies and Asian Studies, as well as on courses on gender, media and popular culture in Asia.

Author : B. D'Costa,K. Lee-Koo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230617742

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Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific by B. D'Costa,K. Lee-Koo Pdf

This book demonstrates the integral nature of gendered issues and feminist frameworks for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary IR bringing together the work of feminist scholars, teachers and activists into a coherent and accessible collection.