Women's Movements in Asia by Edwards, Louise P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Contents Acknowledgements Contributors 1 Asian feminisms

The ‘F’ word and the ‘T’ word Women’s issues from an Asian perspective Political contexts Transnational secular and religious worlds Track records Note References

2 Feminism and the women’s movement in the world’s largest Islamic nation

What is similar to elsewhere in Asia What is particular about Indonesia? Conclusion Notes References

3 Rethinking ‘the Filipino woman’

A brief history of women’s movements in the Philippines Theorizing ‘the Filipina’ Criticizing grand narratives and fashioning new ones Locating women Practices: fashioning women Looking back, looking forward, looking outwards Notes References

4 Chinese feminism in a transnational frame

Pendulum swings in international engagement Building a feminist movement with global partners prior to 1949 Managing state feminism and isolationist nationalism Engaging with the world but hampered by nationalism, 1979–2009 Conclusion Notes References

5 Transnational networks and localized campaigns

Activism in the colonial period The struggle against polygamy The Great Marriage Debate The rights of foreign workers Achievements and setbacks One organization movement? Conclusion Notes References

6 Crossing boundaries

The state, transnationalism and feminism in Japanese historiography Transnational influences and modernity Transnational feminism and Christianity Transnationalism and secular feminists’ quest for political inclusion Postscript References

7 Feminism, Buddhism and transnational women’s movements in Thailand

Thai gender orders Women’s movements Prostitution and Thai sex workers The transnational bhikkhuni movement Conclusion Note References

8 Following the trail of the fairy-bird

The origin of the myth The political and legal status of women in dynastic Vietnam The colonial period Feminism’s marriage with socialism Challenges for the women’s movement after (Renovation) Conclusion Notes References

9 The Hong Kong women’s movement

The Hong Kong women’s movement in the colonial period Divisions within the Hong Kong women’s movement in the lead-up to 1997 Political opportunities and social networks Strategies and symbolic politics Conclusion Notes References

Marking the terrain A movement in the making Keeping up the momentum Tomorrow’s agenda—achievements, failures and challenges ahead Notes References

11 Mapping a hundred years of activism

Beginnings Colonial period (1910–45) Liberation to the fall of Syngman Rhee Women’s movements under military dictatorship (1961–86) Gradual transition to democracy and the role of women’s movements (1987–97) Women-friendly governments and the institutionalization of women’s movements (1998–2007) Neo-Conservative retreat Conclusion Notes References

12 ‘Riding a buffalo to cross a muddy field’

Cambodian ‘feminism’ negotiating the space between colonialism and nationalism Marshalling notions of ‘tradition’ Feminism in post-colonial Cambodia Tradition redux Contemporary constructions of feminism Notes References

13 Rights talk and the feminist movement in India

Rights worries and feminist politics Progressive legalism,3 rights and gender Developing women Empowering women Conclusion Notes References

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