Gendering Asia – serie
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28 produkter
Follow the Maid
Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia
Häftad, 2017
344 kr
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This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year.Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant women from one particular village in Central …
Lost Goddesses
The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History
Häftad, 2008
325 kr
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In a narrative and visual tour de force, Trudy Jacobsen examines the relationship between women and power in Cambodian history. Here, she seeks to describe when and why the status of women changed and what factors contributed to these changes.
Working and Mothering in Asia
Images, Ideologies and Identities
Av Theresa W. Devasahayam, Yeoh Saw Ai Brenda
Häftad, 2008
372 kr
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Many women in Asia engage in full-time work and continue to shoulder home and familial responsibilities in accordance to social and cultural norms. As larger structural, economic, historical and social forces impinge upon the way women negotiate roles as mother and worker in everyday life, the …
Authority of Influence
Women and Power in Burmese History
Häftad, 2012
354 kr
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Why is it that, although Burmese women historically enjoyed relatively high social status and economic influence, for the most part they remained conspicuously absent from positions of authority in formal religious, social and political institutions?This is the starting point of a fascinating study …
Queer/Tongzhi China
New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures
Av Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, William F. Schroeder
Häftad, 2015
344 kr
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This book brings together some of the most exciting, original and cutting-edge work being conducted on contemporary queer China. The volume includes original essays by some of the most prolific and central queer activists and artists in the PRC, placing their writing alongside work by emergent and …
Gendered Entanglements
Re-visiting Gender in Rapidly Changing Asia
Av Ragnhild Lund, Philippe Doneys m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
344 kr
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The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity in today's Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity and difference, and formerly …
Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China
Av Hongwei Bao
Häftad, 2018
316 kr
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* First book on gay identity and queer activism in the PRC examined from a cultural studies perspective. * An interdisciplinary project that combines historical and critical analysis of queer cultural texts and ethnographic studies of queer public culture in urban China. * Offers keen insights on …
Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond
Av Peter A. Jackson, Benjamin Baumann
Häftad, 2022
344 kr
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In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing …
The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan
Av Gitte Marianne Hansen, Fabio Gygi
Häftad, 2022
316 kr
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Gender and sexuality in Japan has long been a field of academic study, with gender mainly being examined either as masculinities, femininities or as deviating sexualities. In recent years, however, widespread interest in manga, anime and cosplay among the world’s youth has aroused popular interest …
Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions
Av Jenny Hedström, Elisabeth Olivius
Häftad, 2023
316 kr
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This is the first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar between 2011 and 2021, and which continues to shape events today. The period began with the end of direct military rule and the transition to a hybrid, semi-democratic regime, …
Gender Politics in Asia
Women Manoeuvring Within Dominant Gender Orders
Av Wil Burghoorn, Wil Burghoorn m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
274 kr
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Examines cultural complexities of gender by focusing on gender politics in Asia, with case studies from China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. It is a comprehensive volume that examines multiple aspects of gender politics (in terms of dress, healing, religious ordination, …
Making Fields of Merit
Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand
Häftad, 2007
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344 kr
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Religion plays a central role in Thai society with Buddhism intertwined in the daily lives of the people. Religion also plays an important role in establishing gender boundaries. The growth in recent decades of self-governing nunneries (samnak chii) and the increasing interest of Thai women in a …
Gendered Inequalities in Asia
Configuring, Contesting and Recognizing Women and Men
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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Global processes with flows in money, commodities and people have made it increasingly varied and blurred what it means to be a female or male in Asia today. Socio-economic and cultural patterns in Asia intersect with one another and, in doing so, they translate into power relations that create …
Submitting to God
Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia
Av Sylva Frisk
Häftad, 2009
302 kr
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In recent decades, Malaysia has been profoundly changed both by forces of globalization, modernization and industrialization, and by a strong Islamization process. Some would argue that the situation of Malay women has worsened but such a conclusion is challenged by this study of the everyday …
Authority of Influence
Women and Power in Burmese History
Inbunden, 2012
933 kr
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Why is it that, although Burmese women historically enjoyed relatively high social status and economic influence, for the most part they remained conspicuously absent from positions of authority in formal religious, social and political institutions?This is the starting point of a fascinating study …
Beyond the Singapore Girl
Discourse of Gender and Nation in Singapore
Av Chris Hudson
Inbunden, 2013
906 kr
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The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile 'Oriental' woman dressed in figure-hugging sarong-kebaya is one of the world's longest running and most successful advertising campaigns.But this image does not simply advertise a service; it is part …
Beyond the Singapore Girl
Discourse of Gender and Nation in Singapore
Av Chris Hudson
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile 'Oriental' woman dressed in figure-hugging sarong-kebaya is one of the world's longest running and most successful advertising campaigns.But this image does not simply advertise a service; it is part …
Vietnam's New Middle Classes
Gender, Career, City
Inbunden, 2014
906 kr
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Vietnam has been transformed over the past quarter of a century by massive industrialization and urbanization that followed macro-economic reforms introduced from the late 1980s.This volume explores the social consequences of this change by delving into the lives and aspirations of young women …
Vietnam's New Middle Classes
Gender, Career, City
Häftad, 2014
316 kr
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Vietnam has been transformed over the past quarter of a century by massive industrialization and urbanization that followed macro-economic reforms introduced from the late 1980s.This volume explores the social consequences of this change by delving into the lives and aspirations of young women …
Queer/Tongzhi China
New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures
Av Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, William F. Schroeder
Inbunden, 2015
906 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This book brings together some of the most exciting, original and cutting-edge work being conducted on contemporary queer China. The volume includes original essays by some of the most prolific and central queer activists and artists in the PRC, placing their writing alongside work by emergent and …
Gendered Entanglements
Re-visiting Gender in Rapidly Changing Asia
Av Ragnhild Lund, Philippe Doneys m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
906 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity in today's Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity and difference, and formerly …
Cultivating Gender
Means of Place and Work in Rural Vietnam
Inbunden, 2015
906 kr
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'The husband ploughs, the wife transplants, the buffalo harrows'. In rural Vietnam, this ancient saying has survived communist revolution, land reforms and the recent rise of market-oriented household farming. And yet, even if this trinity still pictures the ideal essence of farming life, the …
Cultivating Gender
Means of Place and Work in Rural Vietnam
Häftad, 2015
316 kr
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'The husband ploughs, the wife transplants, the buffalo harrows'. In rural Vietnam, this ancient saying has survived communist revolution, land reforms and the recent rise of market-oriented household farming. And yet, even if this trinity still pictures the ideal essence of farming life, the …
Follow the Maid
Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia
Inbunden, 2017
962 kr
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This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year.Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant women from one particular village in Central …
Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China
Av Hongwei Bao
Inbunden, 2018
906 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People's Republic of China today is more than a study of `queer China' through the lens of male homosexuality; it also examines the PRC's socialist legacy and considers how the country is undergoing …
Deities and Divas
Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond
Av Peter A. Jackson, Benjamin Baumann
Inbunden, 2021
1018 kr
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In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married to a possessing …
The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan
Av Gitte Marianne Hansen, Fabio Gygi
Inbunden, 2022
906 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Gender and sexuality in Japan has long been a field of academic study, with gender mainly being examined either as masculinities, femininities or as deviating sexualities. In recent years, however, widespread interest in manga, anime and cosplay among the world’s youth has aroused popular interest …
Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions
Av Jenny Hedström, Elisabeth Olivius
Inbunden, 2022
1018 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This is the first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar between 2011 and 2021, and which continues to shape events today. The period began with the end of direct military rule and the transition to a hybrid, semi-democratic regime, …
