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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953975203321

Titolo

Women's suffrage in Asia : gender, nationalism and democracy / / edited by Louise Edwards and Mina Roces

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

ISBN

1-134-32035-3

1-134-32036-1

1-280-53947-X

9786610539475

0-203-40144-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 16

Altri autori (Persone)

EdwardsLouise P

RocesMina <1959->

Disciplina

324.6/23/095

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - Asia

Women - Asia - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : orienting the global women's suffrage movement / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces -- Is the suffragist an American colonial construct? : defining 'the Filipino woman' in colonial Philippines / Mina Roces -- Chinese women's campaigns for suffrage : nationalism, Confucianism and political agency / Louise Edwards -- Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia / Susan Blackburn -- Women's suffrage in Viet Nam / Micheline R. Lessard -- Citizenship and suffrage in interwar Japan / Barbara Molony -- Expanding their realm : women and public agency in colonial Korea / Ken Wells -- The politics of women's suffrage in Thailand / Tamara Loos -- Tradition, law and the female suffrage movement in India / Gail Pearson -- Settler anxieties, indigenous peoples and women's suffrage in the colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawai'i, 1888 to 1902 / Patricia Grimshaw.

Sommario/riassunto

Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case studies presented. It



explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage.