Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region

by Yeoh; Brenda S. A.

• ISBN13: 9780415206600
• ISBN10: 041520660X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Drawing on the current dialogue between feminism, cultural politics and geography, this book positions women as active players mediating the depth and crisis of change in the Asia-Pacific region. Through an in-depth analysis of everyday life as well as the way women mobilize around collective projects, it provides a fresh, often neglected perspective of the politics of change in the region.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	viii
Preface	xi
Introduction: women's agencies and activisms in the Asia-Pacific region	1	(16)
Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Peggy Teo
Shirlena Huang
Nine months: women's agency and the pregnant body in Singapore	17	(24)
Lily Phua
Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Body politics in Bangladesh	41	(20)
Tatjana Haque
The politics of resistance: working-class women in rural Taiwan	61	(18)
Rita S. Gallin
Negotiating land and livelihood: agency and identities in Indonesia's transmigration programme	79	(20)
Rebecca Elmhirst
Gendered surveillance and sexual violence in Filipina pre-migration experiences to Japan	99	(21)
Nobue Suzuki
Resisting history: Indonesian labour activism in the 1990s and the 'Marsinah' case	120	(17)
G.G. Weix
Contradictory identities and political choices: 'Women in Agriculture' in Australia	137	(19)
Ruth Panelli
The complexities of women's agency in Fiji	156	(25)
Jacqueline Leckie
'Asia' in everyday life: dealing with difference in contemporary Japan	181	(24)
Vera Mackie
Sites of transnational activism: Filipino non-government organisations in Hong Kong	205	(18)
Lisa Law
Index	223