Being women in Japan 1970-2000 / Elise K Tipton -- Women in Taiwan: linking economic prosperity and women's progress / Lan-hung Nora Chiang -- Exploring women's status in contemporary Thailand / Bhassorn Limanonda -- Militarism, civil war and women's status: a Burma case study / Janell Mills -- Re-gendering Vietnam: from militant to market socialism / Esta Ungar.
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Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000 / Mina Roces & Louise Edwards -- Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth century / Maila Stivens -- The status of women in a patriarchal state: the case of Singapore / Jasmine Chan -- Women in the People's Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative / Louise Edwards -- Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- Negotiating modernities: Filipino women 1970-2000 / Mina Roces -- Indonesian women: from orde baru to reformasi / Kathryn Robinson -- Rhetoric or reality?: contesting definitions of women in Korea / Sasha Hampson -- Breaking the patriarchal paradigm: Chinese women in Hong Kong / C Tang ... {et al.}
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Surveys the transformation in the status of women since 1970 in a range of diverse nations: Malaysia; China; Indonesia; Singapore; the Philippines; India; Taiwan; Vietnam; Hong Kong; Korea; Japan; and Burma. Within these case studies, the book explores being women, Asian and modern.