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Lost goddesses : the denial of female power in Cambodian history

Title: Lost goddesses : the denial of female power in Cambodian history / Trudy Jacobsen.
Author: Jacobsen, Trudy.
Publication: Copenhagen, Denmark : NIAS Press, 2008.

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Description

xx, 327 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"In a narrative and visual tour de force, Trudy Jacobsen examines the relationship between women and power in Cambodian history. Here, she seeks to describe when and why the status of women changed and what factors contributed to these changes. Although Cambodian women have been represented at different times as 'powerless' in Western analyses, the author argues that they have continued to exercise authority outside those areas of concern to Western constructs of power."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Gendering Asia ; no. 4

Uniform Title

Gendering Asia ; no. 4.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-319) and index.

Contents

Introducing the goddesses -- Devi, Rajñ̃i, Dasi, Mat -- Behind the apsara -- Goddesses lost? -- Hostages, heroines and hostilities -- 'Traditional' Cambodia -- Cherchez la femme -- 'Liberation' -- Into the fields -- Picking up the pieces -- Contemporary conspiracies -- Goddesses found.

ISBN

9788776940010
8776940012

OCLC

ocn237289889
237289889
SCSB-1497880

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library