Gender Politics in Asia

This book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and women’s strategies to negotiate and change gender relations individually or collectively. It examines cultural complexities of gender by focusing on gender politics in Asia, with case studis from China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. It examines multiple aspects of gender politics (dress, healing, religious ordination, NGO activism, etc.), bringing to bear interdisciplinary approaches of inquiry based on in-depth empirical data.

Introduction (Qi Wang, Cecilia Milwertz, Wil Burghoorn and Kazuki Iwanaga)
Women, Citizenship and the Politics of Dress in Twentieth-Century Philippines(Mina Roces)
Community-Based Movements of Japanese Women: How Mothers Infiltrate the Political Sphere from Below(Mikiko Eto)
Healing Bodies of Thought: The State of Gender in the Sthya Sai Baba Movement in Malaysia(Alexandra Kent)
Gender and Religious Legitimacy in Thailand(Monica Lindberg Falk)
Conciousness-Raising among and beyond Women's Movement Activists in China(Cecilia Milwertz and Bu Wei)
Organizing for Change and Empowerment: The Women Mayors’ Association in China (Qi Wang)
‘No Fire in the Belly’: Women’s Political Role in Singapore (Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew)
Index

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… an excellent introduction to the subject written in a lively and interesting manner, accessible to a general as well as an academic readership. I would strongly recommend Gender politics in Asia as a key text for anyone interested in and/or studying gender roles in Asia.

Reviewed by Colette Balmain, ASEASUK News 46, 2009

Though the majority of essays examine the women's movement under a microscope in relation to a specific historical and social context, the authors bring such micro, or often very personal movents, up to much larger frameworks, to local, national, transnational and historical levels, thereby making theiry arguments richer and more interesting. This is one book that will hold readers' interest because of the wide range of interesting research topics and approaches.

Reviewed by Reiko Yamagishi, Dept. of Sociology, National University of Singapore, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 27 (2), 2009

Wil Burghoorn

Wil Burghoorn is a social anthropologist, lecturer and researcher at the School of Global Studies at Göteborg University.

She has done research on gender and development related issues, forms of relatedness and expressions of belonging, in Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh. She has coordinated several interdisciplinary research projects, involving institutes in Sweden, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Bangladesh. Currently she is co-coordinating a research project on Rural Families in Transitional Vietnam.

Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz

Cecilia Milwertz has an MA in Chinese studies and cultural sociology and a PhD in Chinese Studies from Copenhagen University.

She is engaged in studies of non-governmental organizing to address gender issues in the People’s Republic of China. Her current projects include a study of activism against gender-based violence by Beijing women’s organizations and a project on interaction between three gender and development NGOs based in Hebei, Shaanxi and Yunnan province with non-Chinese development aid NGOs and Chinese party-state institutions.

Qi Wang

PhD in political science, postdoc. at the University of Aarhus (2000-2002) and Lund University in Sweden (2002-2003). Main publication includes Gender Politics in Asian (with Cecilia Milwertz, Wil Brughorn and Kazuki Iwanaga), NIAS Press 2008; a working paper “Renegotiating Gender and Power: Women’s Organizations and Networks in Politics -The China Women Mayors’ Association”, working paper series, Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies at Lund University 2003; and a book chapter “State-Society Relations and Women's Political Participation” in Jackie West, Zhao Minghua, Chang Xiangqun, and ChengYuan (ed). Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation, London: Macmillan Press LTD1999.

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edited by Wil Burghoorn, Kazuki Iwanaga, Cecilia Milwertz & Qi Wang