Human rights and gender politics : Asia-Pacific perspectives /
Human rights and gender politics : Asia-Pacific perspectives /
edited by Anne-Marie Hilsdon [and others].
- ix, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; 5 .
- Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies 5. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific / Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse: the emergence of the military prostitution issue / The state and the women's movement: instabilities in the discourse of 'rights' in India / Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China / Human rights of gendered citizens: notes from Indonesia / Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?: women's rights, human rights, and domestic violence in Vanuatu / 'Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!': Melanesian women and human rights / Contemplacion fiasco: the hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore / Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora: globalization and human rights / Emergence of 'modern' gay identities and the question of human rights / Maila Stivens -- Vera Mackie -- Kalpana Ram -- Antonia Finnane -- Krishna Sen -- Margaret Jolly -- Martha Macintyre -- Anne-Marie Hilsdon -- Beryl Langer -- Dennis Altman.
0415191734 9780415191739
99059821
Human rights--Asia
Human rights--Pacific Area
Women's rights--Asia
Women's rights--Pacific Area
Women--Social conditions--Asia
Women--Social conditions--Pacific Area
JC599.A78 / H825 2000
323.34
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific / Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse: the emergence of the military prostitution issue / The state and the women's movement: instabilities in the discourse of 'rights' in India / Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China / Human rights of gendered citizens: notes from Indonesia / Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?: women's rights, human rights, and domestic violence in Vanuatu / 'Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!': Melanesian women and human rights / Contemplacion fiasco: the hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore / Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora: globalization and human rights / Emergence of 'modern' gay identities and the question of human rights / Maila Stivens -- Vera Mackie -- Kalpana Ram -- Antonia Finnane -- Krishna Sen -- Margaret Jolly -- Martha Macintyre -- Anne-Marie Hilsdon -- Beryl Langer -- Dennis Altman.
0415191734 9780415191739
99059821
Human rights--Asia
Human rights--Pacific Area
Women's rights--Asia
Women's rights--Pacific Area
Women--Social conditions--Asia
Women--Social conditions--Pacific Area
JC599.A78 / H825 2000
323.34