Gender and Modernity

Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific

• Author(s): Yoko Hayami, Akio Tanabe, Yumiko Tokita-Tanabe,
• Publisher: Kyoto University Press
• Pages: 309
• ISBN_10: 1876843608
  ISBN_13: 9781876843601
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism , Political Science / World / Asian , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

Description:... Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic fieldwork, this anthology examines the complexities of identity formation and self-positioning in post-colonial contexts, ranging from the impact of Christian missionaries on the women of Aboriginal Australia to the re-masculinization of post-colonial subjects in Eastern India, from the negotiation of gendered spaces in Indonesia and Thailand to the ways in which Japanese popular culture "plays" with gender identities.