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Author : Aazar Ayaz
Release : 2009
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis The Gender Face of Asian Politics by : Aazar Ayaz
Download or read book The Gender Face of Asian Politics written by Aazar Ayaz. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Women and Politics, held at Islamabad during 24-25 November 2005.
Author : Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Release : 2005-08-18
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region by : Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Download or read book Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region written by Brenda S. A. Yeoh. This book was released on 2005-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the region. The editors focus attention on the politics of gender as a mobilizing centre for identities, and the ways in which individualized identity politics may be linked to larger collective emancipatory projects based on shared interests, practical needs, or common threats. Collectively, the chapters illustrate the complexity of women's strategies, the diversity of sites for action, and the flexibility of their alliances as they carve out niches for themselves in what are still largely patriarchal worlds. This book will be of vital interest to scholars in a range of subjects, including gender studies, human geography, women's studies, Asian studies, sociology and anthropology.
Author : Devin K. Joshi
Release : 2022-08-03
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments by : Devin K. Joshi
Download or read book Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments written by Devin K. Joshi. This book was released on 2022-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of national-level women parliamentarians in Asia averages a mere 20%. What is more important than simple descriptive representation, however, is whether outcomes for women are improving. Rather than focusing on numerical representation, the chapters in this book focus on the substantive representation of women. In other words, what do women and men parliamentarians do to advance women’s well-being and gender equality? Using semi-structured interviews, the author of each chapter examines these efforts in the context of a specific Asian country. The case studies include Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Timor-Leste. The book is an essential resource for scholars and students of Asian politics and the politics of gender.
Author : Kazuki Iwanaga
Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Political Participation and Representation in Asia by : Kazuki Iwanaga
Download or read book Women's Political Participation and Representation in Asia written by Kazuki Iwanaga. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper-class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But there is a marked lack of relevant research as well as of comprehensive and user-friendly texts. Aiming to fill the gap is this timely and important study of the various obstacles and opportunities for women's political participation and representation in Asia.
Author : Theresa W Devasahayam
Release : 2018-11-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Women and Politics in Southeast Asia by : Theresa W Devasahayam
Download or read book Women and Politics in Southeast Asia written by Theresa W Devasahayam. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to contribute to the discourse on women and politics in Southeast Asia. The chapters, covering Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Singapore, analyse the asymmetrical power relationships between the sexes and how power differentials between men and women play out in the realm of politics are a reflection of the power contestations women face with men in other spheres of everyday life. Each chapter seeks to ask a different question in terms of where women viz. men stand in the political landscape of their countries, in an effort to answer the question of Where are the women in the gender trope in Asian politics. While the chapters are primarily empirical as they delve into the challenges, contradictions and conflicts Southeast Asian women encounter, the main assertion is that womens struggles in the realm of politics are a result of having to operate within power structures created principally by men, thereby producing barriers for women to enter politics, on the one hand, and to increase their numbers and widen their sphere of influence, on the other. Recognizing that Asian politics is dominated by men, the question of how women have negotiated a value system that is inherently male-centred and male-controlled is also discussed. The implicit narrative demonstrated in this book is that the political arena should not be considered in isolation from other arenas but instead is essentially a mirror of other arenas whether the home, workplace, nation, and/or global spaces each marked by power contestations between men and women and having a spill-over effect on the other, as well as shaping womens experiences in the political realm.
