Women and Work in Indonesia

Edited by Michele Ford, Lyn Parker

This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about...

ISBN: 978-0-415-40288-0 | Published February 5th 2008 by Routledge.

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Women and Labour Organizing in Asia

Diversity, Autonomy and Activism

Edited by Kaye Broadbent, Michele Ford

This book investigates the role of women and labour activism in Asia, demonstrating that women have been active in union and non union based campaigns...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41315-2 | Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.

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Women, Islam and Modernity

Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia

By Linda Rae Bennett

In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of...

ISBN: 978-0-415-32929-3 | Published April 14th 2005 by Routledge.

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Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan

By Catherine Burns

This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which...

ISBN: 978-0-415-33651-2 | Published February 1st 2005 by Routledge.

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The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia

Gender and Nation in a New Democracy

By ELIZABETH MARTYN

This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30838-0 | Published December 17th 2004 by Routledge.

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Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand

By Andrea Whittaker

This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context - in Thailand, where over 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of...

ISBN: 978-0-415-33652-9 | Published July 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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Chinese Women - Living and Working

By Anne McLaren

This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century....

ISBN: 978-0-415-31217-2 | Published November 27th 2003 by Routledge.

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Violence Against Women in Asian Societies

Gender Inequality and Technologies of Violence

Edited by Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson

Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1742-2 | Published February 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Women's Employment in Japan

The Experience of Part-time Workers

By Kaye Broadbent

The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1743-9 | Published February 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Violence Against Women in Asian Societies

Gender Inequality and Technologies of Violence

Edited by Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson

Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1741-5 | Published February 6th 2003 by Routledge.

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