Gender Politics in Asia
Women Manoeuvring with Dominant Gender Orders
Edited by Wil Burghoorn, Kazuki Iwanaga, Cecilia Milwertz & Qi Wang
Published by NIAS Press

ISBN 978 87 7694 015 7
2008, 235 pp., illustrated

This book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and women’s strategies to negotiate and change gender relations individually or collectively. A comprehensive volume of gender politics in China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia, it examines multiple aspects of gender politics in Asia (dress, healing, religious ordination, NGO activism, etc.), bringing interdisciplinary approaches of inquiry based on in-depth empirical data.