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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/0959
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: SenKrishna StivensMaila
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and power in affluent Asia
• ISBN: 1-134-71095-X; 1-134-71096-8; 1-280-31862-7; 0-203-44682-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812978203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New rich in Asia.