Asian Journal of Women's Studies
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Feminism |
| ISBN | : |
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Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
| Author | : Lynn Fujiwara |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2018-12-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0295744375 |
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship. This collection, featuring work by both senior and rising scholars, considers topics including the politics of visibility, histories of Asian American participation in women of color political formations, accountability for Asian American “settler complicities” and cross-racial solidarities, and Asian American community-based strategies against state violence as shaped by and tied to women of color feminisms. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics provides a deep conceptual intervention into the theoretical underpinnings of Asian American studies; ethnic studies; women’s, gender, and sexual studies; as well as cultural studies in general.
Traffic in Asian Women
| Author | : Laura Hyun Yi Kang |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2020-08-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1478012285 |
In Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (1932–1945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although many have upheld the "comfort women" case as exemplary of both the past violation and the contemporary empowerment of Asian women, Kang argues that it has profoundly destabilized the imaginary unity and conceptual demarcation of the category. Kang traces how "Asian women" have been alternately distinguished and effaced as subjects of the traffic in women, sexual slavery, and violence against women. She also explores how specific modes of redress and justice were determined by several overlapping geopolitical and economic changes ranging from U.S.-guided movements of capital across Asia and the end of the Cold War to the emergence of new media technologies that facilitated the global circulation of "comfort women" stories.
Gender Trends in Southeast Asia
| Author | : Theresa W. Devasahayam |
| Publisher | : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
| Total Pages | : 135 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9812309551 |
As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. In exploring the progress made by Southeast Asian men and women, this book seeks to answer the following questions: (a) In what areas have women been able to achieve parity with men? (b) In what areas do women encounter specific disadvantages based on their gender as compared with men? and (c) How have womens concerns and problems been addressed by the governments in this region with the aim of encouraging gender equality? As the title of this book suggests, the chapters provide an analysis of the broad trends - including changes and continuities - in the experiences, interests and concerns of Southeast Asian women. The chapters examine the trends related to women in the following arenas: the family, economic participation, politics, health, and religion. In some arenas, the trends reflect the disadvantages women face, which in turn have led to gender gaps; in other areas, women's progress has been found to eclipse that of the men, although this tends to be the exception.
The Rani of Jhansi
| Author | : Harleen Singh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2014-06-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316092992 |
Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure of a woman in battle into bounded and meaningful feminine roles such as daughter, wife, mother, and queen. Women and the home were integral to how nationalist discourse envisioned the modern, yet traditional, Indian nation. The Rani remains a metaphoric referent of the home, and is an abiding symbol of the nation, reinvented as authority, power, and tradition. The depictions of the Rani signals what is at stake in representing the unrestricted woman in the public sphere. The book extends the discussion on what constitutes the historical archive of the gendered colonial subject and the postcolonial rebel by being attentive to the vexed figures produced within the competing ideologies of colonialism and nationalism.
Defining Girlhood in India
| Author | : Ashwini Tambe |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2019-10-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0252051580 |
At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices? This question provokes especially vexed debates in India, where early marriage is a widespread practice. India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental conferences setting age standards for sexual maturity. Over the last century, the country shifted the legal age of marriage from twelve, among the lowest in the world, to eighteen, at the high end of the global spectrum. Ashwini Tambe illuminates the ideas that shaped such shifts: how the concept of adolescence as a sheltered phase led to delaying both marriage and legal adulthood; how the imperative of population control influenced laws on marriage age; and how imperial moral hierarchies between nations provoked defensive postures within India. Tambe takes a transnational feminist approach to legal history, showing how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, Tambe argues, the well-meaning focus on child marriage has been tethered less to the interests of girls themselves and more to parents’ interests, achieving population control targets, and preserving national reputation.
South Asian Feminisms
| Author | : Ania Loomba |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2012-03-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 082235179X |
This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally.
Asian Journal of Women's Studies
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Feminism |
| ISBN | : |
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
| Author | : Tani Barlow |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 2004-03-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780822332701 |
DIVBarlow documents the history of “woman” as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese writer./div
