Women's movements in Asia feminisms and transnational activism

"Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women's activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women's movement in 12 countries: the Philipp...

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Other Authors: Edwards, Louise P. (-), Roces, Mina, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Asian feminisms : women's movements from the Asian perspective / Mina Roces
  • Feminism and the women's movement in the world's largest Islamic nation / Susan Blackburn
  • Rethinking 'the Filipino woman' : a century of women's activism in the Philippines, 1905-2006 / Mina Roces
  • Chinese feminism in a transnational frame : between internationalism and xenophobia / Louise Edwards
  • Transnational networks and localized campaigns : the women's movement in Singapore / Lenore Lyons
  • Crossing boundaries : transnational feminisms in twentieth-century Japan / Barbara Molony
  • Feminism, Buddhism and transnational women's movements in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk
  • Following the trail of the fairy-bird : the search for a uniquely Vietnamese women's movement / Alessandra Chiricosta
  • Hong Kong women's movement : towards a politics of difference and diversity / Adelyn Lim
  • Military rule, religious fundamentalism, women's empowerment and feminism in Pakistan / Andrea Fleschenberg
  • Mapping a hundred years of activism : women's movements in Korea / Seung-Kyung Kim and Kyounghee Kim
  • 'Riding a buffalo to cross a muddy field' : heuristic approaches to feminism in Cambodia / Trudy Jacobsen
  • Rights talk and the feminist movement in India / Sumi Madhok.