Gender and modernity : perspectives from Asia and the Pacific /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hayami, Yōko, 1959-, Tanabe, Akio, 1964-, Tokita-Tanabe, Yumiko
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Kyoto, Japan : Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : Portland, Or. : Kyoto University Press ; Trans Pacific Press ; Distributors, USA and Canada, International Specialized Book Services, 2003.
Series:	Kyoto area studies on Asia ; v. 4.
Subjects:	Women > Asia > Social conditions > 20th century. Gender identity > Asia. Femmes > Asie > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle. Identité de genre > Asie. 83.06 feminist economics. Gender identity Women > Social conditions Asia Geschlechterrolle Sozialer Wandel Asiatisch-Pazifischer Raum Asien Südostasien Ostasien Sociale politiek. 1900-1999 Aufsatzsammlung.

Table of 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.