The Agency Of Women In Asia
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The Agency Of Women In Asia
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Author : Lyn Parker
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
Release Date : 2005
The Agency Of Women In Asia written by Lyn Parker and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the meanings and operation of agency exercised by women in various cultures and contexts in Asia. It examines how and under what conditions women in Asia express themselves. It analyzes women's capacity for action, how women take action, and how women sometimes resist the discourses and conditions that shape their lives. The book also discusses how this agency can be interpreted and assessed. The contributors to this book examine particular women's practice and expression in specific contexts: "parasite singles"-especially unmarried young women-in Japan, whose unconventional lifestyles seem to effect a subversion of the expected female roles of daughters, mothers, and wives; Indonesian women employed as domestic workers in Singapore; the women from South Korea and the Philippines who have married Japanese men through the international marriage business system; female Muslim healers in Lombok who work against fate; rural Balinese women who have their babies in hospitals; and female performers and performances in contemporary Indonesian theatre.
Gender Politics In The Asia Pacific Region
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Author : Brenda S. A. Yeoh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-18
Gender Politics In The Asia Pacific Region written by Brenda S. A. Yeoh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-18 with Political Science categories.
Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the region. The editors focus attention on the politics of gender as a mobilizing centre for identities, and the ways in which individualized identity politics may be linked to larger collective emancipatory projects based on shared interests, practical needs, or common threats. Collectively, the chapters illustrate the complexity of women's strategies, the diversity of sites for action, and the flexibility of their alliances as they carve out niches for themselves in what are still largely patriarchal worlds. This book will be of vital interest to scholars in a range of subjects, including gender studies, human geography, women's studies, Asian studies, sociology and anthropology.
Contestations Over Gender In Asia
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Author : Lyn Parker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Contestations Over Gender In Asia written by Lyn Parker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Social Science categories.
This book brings together the work of scholars from around the world in a consideration of how gender is contested in various parts of Asia – in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines. Part I of this collection explores notions of agency in relation to women’s domestic and everyday lives. While ‘agency’ is one of the key terms in contemporary social science, scholarship on women in Asia recently has focussed on women’s political activism. Women’s private lives have been neglected in this new scholarship. This volume has a special focus on women’s relational and emotional lives, domestic practices, marriage, singlehood and maternity. Papers consider how women negotiate enhanced space and reputations, challenging negative representations and entrenched models of intra-family and intimate relations. There is also a warning about too free feminist expectations of agency and the repercussions of the exercise of agency. The three essays in Part II examine the historical construction of masculinities in colonial and postcolonial South and Southeast Asia, and the ways that manhood is interpreted, experienced and performed in daily life in the past and in present times. They highlight the centrality and continued relevance of masculinity to analyses of empire and nation and underscore the highly gendered and (hetero)sexualized nature of political, military, and economic institutions. Collectively, the essays explore a wide range of competing articulations and experiences of gender within Asia, emphasising the historical and contemporary plurality and variability of femininity and masculinity, and the dynamic and intersectional nature of gender identities and relations. This book was published as a special issue of Asian Studies Review.
Women S Empowerment In South Asia
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Author : Pranab Panday
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Women S Empowerment In South Asia written by Pranab Panday and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Social Science categories.
Economic development in the poorest countries often makes better progress when women become involved in, and take a lead in, development projects. Encouraging women’s involvement, however, is often a major difficulty in societies where traditionally women’s status has been inferior and where women are expected to be domestic and passive. This book, based on extensive original research, considers major projects undertaken by non-governmental organisations in Bangladesh to encourage women’s participation. The book identifies the factors which motivated women to be active, discusses how women achieved the level of capacity and knowledge to enable them to serve their communities appropriately, assesses the major difficulties and recommends how empowerment projects can be improved in future. The book concludes that established institutions and traditional customs are often the greatest barrier to women’s participation.
Women War And Peace In South Asia
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Author : Rita Manchanda
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 2001-06-25
Women War And Peace In South Asia written by Rita Manchanda and has been published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-25 with Political Science categories.
Perhaps the first to develop a gender analysis of conflict in South Asia, this volume challenges the centrality of men s experiences and theorisations of conflict. Instead, it focuses on women s experiences as representing alternative and non-violent ways negotiating the construction of conflictual identities and on women s perspectives which privilege the notion of a just peace. This vital and timely contribution to an understanding of women s neglected yet crucial role in times of war and peace highlights the way in which women manage survival and reconstruction. It will interest students and scholars of gender studies, conflict and peace studies, political science and psychology as well as the lay reader .
Gender Ethnicity And Political Agency
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Author : Shaminder Takhar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Gender Ethnicity And Political Agency written by Shaminder Takhar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Social Science categories.
This book examines how South Asian women’s collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity and subjectivity, and uses empirical research to demonstrate how women are empowered to resist domination. The historically racialized image of the South Asian woman as lacking in political agency is challenged through their long history of activism on the Indian subcontinent. The creation of "critical spaces" by South Asian women in the diaspora places them as active agents who have successfully influenced social policy on important issues such as forced marriage, domestic violence and sexuality. The engagement with the empirical data demonstrates the significance and impact of race, racism, sexism and religion on the lives of the women. The book brings to the fore the pursuit of equality, rights and justice, including multiculturalism and the often debated emancipatory role of religion.
Women S Empowerment In South Asia
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Author : Pranab Panday
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-12
Women S Empowerment In South Asia written by Pranab Panday and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with categories.
Economic development in the poorest countries often makes better progress when women become involved in, and take a lead in, development projects. Encouraging women�s involvement, however, is often a major difficulty in societies where traditionally women�s status has been inferior and where women are expected to be domestic and passive. This book, based on extensive original research, considers major projects undertaken by non-governmental organisations in Bangladesh to encourage women�s participation. The book identifies the factors which motivated women to be active, discusses how women achieved the level of capacity and knowledge to enable them to serve their communities appropriately, assesses the major difficulties and recommends how empowerment projects can be improved in future. The book concludes that established institutions and traditional customs are often the greatest barrier to women�s participation.
Women S Movements In Asia
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Author : Mina Roces
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-06-10
Women S Movements In Asia written by Mina Roces and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-10 with Social Science categories.
Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women’s activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women’s movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Korea, India and Pakistan. For each of these countries the manner in which feminism changes according to cultural, political, economic and religious factors is explored. The contributors investigate how national feminisms are influenced by transnational factors, such as the women’s movements in other countries, colonialism and international agencies. Each chapter also considers what Asian feminists have contributed to global theoretical debates on the woman question, the key successes and failures of the movements and what needs to be addressed in the future. This breadth of coverage, together with suggestions for further reading and watching, and an integrated cross-national timeline makes Women's Movements in Asia ideal for use on courses looking at women and feminism in Asia. It will appeal both to students and specialists in the fields of gender, women’s and Asian studies.
Women In Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
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Author : Susan Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2013-07-31
Women In Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements written by Susan Blackburn and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with History categories.
Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little - if any - mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements makes a strong case for the significance of women's involvement in nationalist movements and for the diverse impact of those movements on the lives of individual women activists. Some of the 12 women whose political activities are discussed in this volume are well known, while others are not. Some of them participated in armed struggles, while others pursued peaceful ways of achieving national independence. The authors show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. They also illustrate the constraints imposed on them by wider social and political structures, and show what it was like to live as a political activist in different times and places. Fully documented and drawing on wider scholarship, this book will be of interest to students of Southeast Asian history and politics as well as readers with a particular interest in women, nationalism and political activism.
Moving Into The Mainstream
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Author : Canadian International Development Agency
language : en
Publisher: Hull, Québec : Direction générale des affaires publiques, Agence canadienne de développement interntional (ACDI)
Release Date : 1987
Moving Into The Mainstream written by Canadian International Development Agency and has been published by Hull, Québec : Direction générale des affaires publiques, Agence canadienne de développement interntional (ACDI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Economic assistance, Canadian categories.
For many years, women were overlooked in the development process. Often, planners did not fully understand or appreciate women's roles in the many and varied cultures of the developing countries. Women's vital contributions in the area of family survival, and their potential to take part in small and medium-scale enterprise, have been particular targets in Canada's development program in Asia. This document presents an overview of Canada's activities in Asia.