The agency of women in Asia / edited by Lyn Parker.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Gender and women studies.
Other Authors: Parker, Lyn
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2005.
Series:Gender and women studies.
Subjects:
Women > Asia > Social conditions.
Power (Social sciences) > Asia.
Physical Description:iii, 235 pages ; 21 cm.
Variant Title:
Asia.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Women standing between life and death, fate, agency, and the healers of Lombok / M. Cameron Hay
  • Resisting resistance and finding agency, women and medicalized birth in Bali / Lyn Parker
  • Women's agency in contemporary Indonesian theatre / Lauren Bain
  • Lifestyles of the rich and single / Laura Dales
  • Complex power and diverse responses, transnational marriage migration and women's agency / Tomoko Nakamatsu
  • Shaping the migrant institution, the agency of Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore / Noorashikin Abdul Rahman.