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Women's movements in Asia [electronic resource] : feminisms and transnational activism / edited by Mina Roces and Louise Edwards.

Contributor(s): Roces, Mina, 1959- | Edwards, Louise P.
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2010Description: 1 online resource (x, 276 p.).ISBN: 9780203851234 (ebk : PDF).Subject(s): Feminism -- Asia | Women -- Political activity -- Asia | TransnationalismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No title; No title; No titleDDC classification: 305.42095 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Asian feminisms : women's movements from the Asian perspective / Mina Roces -- 2. Feminism and the women's movement in the world's largest Islamic nation / Susan Blackburn -- 3. Rethinking 'the Filipino woman' : a century of women's activism in the Philippines, 1905-2006 / Mina Roces -- 4. Chinese feminism in a transnational frame : between internationalism and xenophobia / Louise Edwards -- 5. Transnational networks and localized campaigns : the women's movement in Singapore / Lenore Lyons -- 6. Crossing boundaries : transnational feminisms in twentieth-century Japan / Barbara Molony -- 7. Feminism, Buddhism and transnational women's movements in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- 8. Following the trail of the fairy-bird : the search for a uniquely Vietnamese women's movement / Alessandra Chiricosta -- 9. The Hong Kong women's movement : towards a politics of difference and diversity / Adelyn Lim -- 10. Military rule, religious fundamentalism, women's empowerment and feminism in Pakistan / Andrea Fleschenberg -- 11. Mapping a hundred years of activism : women's movements in Korea / Seung-Kyung Kim and Kyounghee Kim -- 12. 'Riding a buffalo to cross a muddy field' : heuristic approaches to feminism in Cambodia / Trudy Jacobsen -- 13. Rights talk and the feminist movement in India / Sumi Madhok.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Asian feminisms : women's movements from the Asian perspective / Mina Roces -- 2. Feminism and the women's movement in the world's largest Islamic nation / Susan Blackburn -- 3. Rethinking 'the Filipino woman' : a century of women's activism in the Philippines, 1905-2006 / Mina Roces -- 4. Chinese feminism in a transnational frame : between internationalism and xenophobia / Louise Edwards -- 5. Transnational networks and localized campaigns : the women's movement in Singapore / Lenore Lyons -- 6. Crossing boundaries : transnational feminisms in twentieth-century Japan / Barbara Molony -- 7. Feminism, Buddhism and transnational women's movements in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- 8. Following the trail of the fairy-bird : the search for a uniquely Vietnamese women's movement / Alessandra Chiricosta -- 9. The Hong Kong women's movement : towards a politics of difference and diversity / Adelyn Lim -- 10. Military rule, religious fundamentalism, women's empowerment and feminism in Pakistan / Andrea Fleschenberg -- 11. Mapping a hundred years of activism : women's movements in Korea / Seung-Kyung Kim and Kyounghee Kim -- 12. 'Riding a buffalo to cross a muddy field' : heuristic approaches to feminism in Cambodia / Trudy Jacobsen -- 13. Rights talk and the feminist movement in India / Sumi Madhok.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.