Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region (Hardcover)

1. Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Peggy Teo and Shirlena Huang Introduction: Women's Agencies and Activisms in the Asia-Pacific Region2. Lily Phua and Brenda S. A. Yeoh Nine Months: Women's Agency and the Pregnant Body in Singapore3. Tatjana Haque Body Politics in Bangladesh4. Rita S. Gallin The Politics of Resistance: Working-class Women in Rural Taiwan5. Rebecca Elmhirst Negotiating Land and Livelihood: Agency and Identities in Indonesia's Transmigration Programme6. Nobue Suzuki Gendered Surveillance and Sexual Violence in Filipina Pre-migration Experiences to Japan7. G. G. Weix Resisting History: Indonesian Labour Activism in the 1990s and the 'Marsinah' Case8. Ruth Liepins Contradictory Identities and Political Choices: 'Women in Agriculture' in Australia9. Jacqueline Leckie The Complexities of Women's Agency in Fiji10. Vera Mackie 'Asia' in Everyday Life: Dealing with Difference in Contemporary Japan11. Lisa Law Sites of Transnational Activism: Filipino Non-Government Organizations in Hong Kong