Gendering Asia – serie
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Lost Goddesses
The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History
Häftad, 2008
324 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
371 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
353 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
343 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
343 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 …
Follow the Maid
Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia
Häftad, 2017
309 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
Häftad, 2018
315 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
343 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
315 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
315 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, …
