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BL
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999883
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b754253
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| Title & Author
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Women in Asia : : tradition, modernity and globalisation /\ [edited by] Louise Edwards Mina Roces.
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| Publication Statement
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St. Leonards, N.S.W. :: Allen & Unwin,, 2000.
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| Series Statement
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Women in Asia publication series
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| Page. NO
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327 pages ;; 22 cm.
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| ISBN
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1865083186
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: 9781865083186
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Being women in Japan 1970-2000 / Elise K Tipton -- Women in Taiwan: linking economic prosperity and women's progress / Lan-hung Nora Chiang -- Exploring women's status in contemporary Thailand / Bhassorn Limanonda -- Militarism, civil war and women's status: a Burma case study / Janell Mills -- Re-gendering Vietnam: from militant to market socialism / Esta Ungar.
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Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000 / Mina Roces & Louise Edwards -- Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth century / Maila Stivens -- The status of women in a patriarchal state: the case of Singapore / Jasmine Chan -- Women in the People's Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative / Louise Edwards -- Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- Negotiating modernities: Filipino women 1970-2000 / Mina Roces -- Indonesian women: from orde baru to reformasi / Kathryn Robinson -- Rhetoric or reality?: contesting definitions of women in Korea / Sasha Hampson -- Breaking the patriarchal paradigm: Chinese women in Hong Kong / C Tang ... {et al.}
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| Abstract
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Surveys the transformation in the status of women since 1970 in a range of diverse nations: Malaysia; China; Indonesia; Singapore; the Philippines; India; Taiwan; Vietnam; Hong Kong; Korea; Japan; and Burma. Within these case studies, the book explores being women, Asian and modern.
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Sex role-- East Asia.
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Sex role-- India.
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Sex role-- Southeast Asia.
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Women-- East Asia.
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Women-- India.
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Women-- Southeast Asia.
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Feminism-- Asia.
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Sex role-- Asia.
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Sex role.
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Women in development-- Asia.
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Women-- Asia-- Economic conditions.
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Women-- Asia-- Social conditions.
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Women.
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Sociale verandering.
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Vrouwen.
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East Asia.
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India.
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Southeast Asia.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.42095
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| LC Classification
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HQ1726.W66 2000
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| NLM classification
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71.33bcl
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| Added Entry
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Edwards, Louise,1962-
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Roces, Mina,1959-
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