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Gender and modernity : perspectives from asia and the pacific

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Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology examines the complexities of identity formation and self-positioning in post-colonial contexts, ranging from the impact of Christian missionaries on the women of Aboriginal Australia to the re-masculinization of post-colonial subjects in Eastern India, from the negotiation of gendered spaces in Indonesia and Thailand to the ways in which Japanese popular culture "plays" with gender identities. These nine papers are based on those given at the 1999 Kyoto University Workshop in which social scientists addressed interlinked and complex issues related to gender and modernity in the Asia Pacific region. Papers focus on: the Yolngu people of Arnhemland, North Australia; Malayali women writers in pre-Independence Kerala; masculinity and cultural politics in Orissa; domestic roles in Bali; gender changes in West-Lio villages in Central Flores; changes in Karen society in North Thailand; urban middle class women in Orissa; gender strategies in Visual Rock musical groups in Japan; and sexual harrassment in contemporary Japan. The epilogue overviews trends in the theories of modernity. With bibliographies and index.

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KP.II YOK g

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Japan : Kyoto University Press., 2003

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xiii, 309 hal. : ilus. ; 23 cm.

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English

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4-87698-452-2

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KP.II

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Gender
Modernity
Gender Perspektive
In Asia and Pacific
Gender Identity-Asia
Gender Identity-Pacific
Social Conditions in Asia and Pacific

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