Gender politics in Asia :  women manoeuvring within dominant gender orders / 
edited by Wil Burghoorn ... [et al.] 
 - Copenhagen :  NIAS Press,  2008 
 - xii, 221 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Gendering Asia ;  no. 3. .
 - Gendering Asia ;  no. 3. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Women, citizenship and the politics of dress in twentieth-century Philippines / Mina Roces -- Community-based movements of Japanese women : how mothers infiltrate the political sphere from below / Mikiko Eto -- Healing bodies of thought : the state of gender in the Sathya Sai Baba movement in Malaysia / Alexandra Kent -- Gender and religious legitimacy in Thailand / Monica Lindberg Falk -- Consciousness-raising among and beyond women's movement activists in China / Cecilia Milwertz and Bu Wei -- Organizing for change and empowerment : the women mayors' association in China / Qi Wang -- 'No fire in the belly' : women's political role in Singapore / Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788776940157 (pbk.) 8776940152 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Social conditions--Asia<br/>Sex role--Asia<br/>Sex discrimination against women--Asia<br/>Women in politics--Asia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1726