Gender Politics in Asia : Women Manoeuvring within Dominant Gender Orders (Gendering Asia)

Examines cultural complexities of gender by focusing on gender politics in Asia, with case studies from China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. It is a comprehensive volume that examines multiple aspects of gender politics (in terms of dress, healing, religious ordination, NGO activism, etc.) and brings interdisciplinary approaches of inquiry based on in-depth empirical data. In so doing, this book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and women's strategies to negotiate and change gender relations individually or collectively.