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Gender and modernity : perspectives from Asia and the Pacific / edited by Hayami Yoko, Tanabe Akio, Tokita-Tanabe Yumiko.

Title: Gender and modernity : perspectives from Asia and the Pacific / edited by Hayami Yoko, Tanabe Akio, Tokita-Tanabe Yumiko.
Publication: Kyoto, Japan : Kyoto University Press ; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : Trans Pacific Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributors, USA and Canada, International Specialized Book Services, 2003.

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xiii, 309 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Kyoto area studies on Asia / Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 1445-9663 ; v. 4

Uniform Title

Kyoto area studies on Asia v. 4.

Subject

1900-1999
Women > Asia > Social conditions > 20th century > Congresses

Note

Based on a workshop entitled "Gender and modernity" held at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, from 11-13 June 1999.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-298) and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Gender and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific / Akio Tanabe, Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe -- Legacies of the Mission: Christian Ideals and Gender / Sachiko Kubota -- Becoming a 'Female Citizen' in Colonial Kerala / Toshie Awaya -- Power, Culture and Masculinity in (Post- )Colonial Orissa, India / Akio Tanabe -- Uncovering the 'Domestic': Gender, Modernity, and the Division of Reproductive Labor in Bali / Ayami Nakatani -- 'Source' and 'Home': Gender and Contemporary Lifeworlds in Central Flores, Southeast Indonesia / Eriko Aoki -- Reorganizing and Traversing Space: Women in the Peripheries of Thailand / Yoko Hayami -- Aesthetics of the Female Self: Modernity and Cultural Agency of Urban Middle-class Women in Orissa / Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe -- Constructing Male Aesthetics in Rock and Makeup: Gender Strategies by Musicians and Fans of Visual Rock in Japan / Takako Inoue -- (De- )Sexualizing Gender Relationships: Sexual Harassment as Modern and as a Critique of Modernity / Ichiro Numazaki -- Epilogue: From Modernity and Beyond / Yoko Hayami.

ISBN

4876984514

LCCN

^^2003417834

OCLC

53183664

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