ABSTRACT

Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relatioships between gender and power that have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence.

chapter 2|28 pages

Indonesian women at work

Reframing the subject

chapter 5|40 pages

Between compliance and esistance

Women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore 1

chapter 6|27 pages

‘Flower vase and housewife'

Women and consumerism in post-Mao China 1

chapter 7|27 pages

Chinese cultural revivalism

Changing gender constructions in the Yangtze River delta 1

chapter 9|41 pages

‘Dutiful daughters’, estranged sisters

Women in Thailand