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  • The Filipino Migration Experience

    Global Agents of Change

    by Mina Roces ...
    Winner of the New South Wales Premier's History Awards, General History Prize (2022)The Filipino Migration Experience introduces a new dimension to the usual depiction of migrants as disenfranchised workers or marginal ethnic groups. Mina Roces suggests alternative ways of conceptualizing Filipino migrants as critics of the family and cultural constructions of sexuality, as consumers and investors ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Gender in Southeast Asia

    by Mina Roces ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
    This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes. The first concerns hegemonic cultural constructions of gender and Southeast Asian subjects' responses to these dominant discourses. Roces introduces hegemonic discourses on ideal masculinities and ideal femininities, evaluates the impact of religion, analyses how authoritarian regimes fashion these ideals. Discussion ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Women in Asia

    Tradition, modernity and globalisation

    Edited by Mina Roces, Louise Edwards ...
    Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation surveys the transformation in the status of women since 1970 in a diverse range of nations: Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and Burma. Within these 13 national case studies the book presents new arguments about being women, being Asian and being modern in contemporary Asia ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Women's Suffrage in Asia

    Gender, Nationalism and Democracy

    Edited by Louise Edwards, Mina Roces ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case studies presented. It explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Wife or Worker?

    Asian Women and Migration

    Edited by Nicola Piper, Mina Roces ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Women's Movements in Asia

    Feminisms and Transnational Activism

    Edited by Mina Roces, Louise Edwards ...
    Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women’s activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women’s movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Korea, India and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
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  • The Latinos of Asia

    How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

    by Anthony Christian Ocampo ...
    This " groundbreaking book . . . is essential reading not only for the Filipino diaspora but for anyone who cares about the mysteries of racial identity" (Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist).Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what "color" you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for ... Read more

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  • Servants of Globalization

    Migration and Domestic Work, Second Edition

    by Rhacel Parreñas ...
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  • The Dance That Makes You Vanish

    Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia

    by Rachmi Diyah Larasati ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, artists, and dancers—were killed, arrested, or disappeared ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Eva Hansson, Meredith L. Weiss ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia explores the nature and implications of civil society across the region, engaging systematically with both theoretical approaches and empirical nuance for a systematic, comparative, and informative approach.The handbook actively analyses the varying definitions of civil society, critiquing the inconsistent scrutiny of this ... Read more

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  • Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

    Edited by Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices – have developed over time. Going beyond existing studies – which concentrate on the politics ... Read more

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