1st Edition

Gender and Power in Affluent Asia

Edited By Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens Copyright 1998

    Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relatioships between gender and power that have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence.

    1: Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia; 2: Indonesian women at work; 3: Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town; 4: Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes; 5: Between compliance and esistance; 6: ‘Flower vase and housewife'; 7: Chinese cultural revivalism; 8: Vietnam's women in the renovation era; 9: ‘Dutiful daughters’, estranged sisters; 10: The gendering of post-war Philippine politics

    Biography

    Krishna Sen, Maila Stivens

    'It's cutting-edge level of inquiry and reflection makes this book an excellent tool for research and teaching' - Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies