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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957584603321

Titolo

Gender and power in affluent Asia / / edited by Krishna Sen and Maila Stivens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-71095-X

1-134-71096-8

1-280-31862-7

0-203-44682-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

The new rich in Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

SenKrishna

StivensMaila

Disciplina

305.42/0959

Soggetti

Women - Southeast Asia - Social conditions

Women - Southeast Asia - Economic conditions

Women in development - Southeast Asia

Middle class - Southeast Asia

Middle class women - Southeast Asia

Sex role - Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia"--T.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia; Indonesian women at work: reframing the subject; Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town; Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes; Between compliance and resistance: women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore; 'Flower vase and housewife': women and consumerism in post-Mao China; Chinese cultural revivalism: changing gender constructions in the Yangtze River delta

Vietnam's women in the renovation era'Dutiful daughters', estranged sisters: women in Thailand; The gendering of post-war Philippine politics; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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