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Women's movements in Asia feminisms and transnational activism / edited by Mina Roces and Louise Edwards. . — New York, NY : Routledge, 2010..

x, 276 p. 24 cm.

Asian feminisms : women's movements from the Asian perspective / Mina Roces -- Feminism and the women's movement in the world's largest Islamic nation / Susan Blackburn -- Rethinking 'the Filipino woman' : a century of women's activism in the Philippines, 1905-2006 / Mina Roces -- Chinese feminism in a transnational frame : between internationalism and xenophobia / Louise Edwards -- Transnational networks and localized campaigns : the women's movement in Singapore / Lenore Lyons -- Crossing boundaries : transnational feminisms in twentieth-century Japan / Barbara Molony -- Feminism, Buddhism and transnational women's movements in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- Following the trail of the fairy-bird : the search for a uniquely Vietnamese women's movement / Alessandra Chiricosta -- The Hong Kong women's movement : towards a politics of difference and diversity / Adelyn Lim -- Military rule, religious fundamentalism, women's empowerment and feminism in Pakistan / Andrea Fleschenberg -- Mapping a hundred years of activism : women's movements in Korea / Seung-Kyung Kim and Kyounghee Kim -- 'Riding a buffalo to cross a muddy field' : heuristic approaches to feminism in Cambodia / Trudy Jacobsen -- Rights talk and the feminist movement in India / Sumi Madhok.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Feminism--Asia.
Women--Political activity--Asia.
Transnationalism.