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Contestations Over Gender in Asia by Lyn Parker; Laura Dales; Chie Ikeya; Wanning Sun; Tamara Jacka; Siti Aisyah; Michael D Pantel; Jessica Hinchy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 womens 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 womens political activism. Womens private lives have been neglected in this new scholarship. This volume has a special focus on womens 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

Who reads Contestations Over Gender in Asia?

Author

Lyn Parker; Laura Dales; Chie Ikeya; Wanning Sun; Tamara Jacka; Siti Aisyah; Michael D Pantel; Jessica Hinchy

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138906822

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Gender Studies, Social_sciences