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The future of Asian feminisms
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ISBN: 1280485876 9786613580856 1443834696 9781443834698 9781443834506 1443834505 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Castle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars

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This book on the future of Asian feminisms, confronting fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism is a critical contribution to the rising voices of Asian women's studies scholars and activists. It is based on the ongoing research and advocacy work o


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The future of Asian feminisms: confronting fundamentalisms, conflicts and neo-liberalism
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars Publishing


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Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia
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ISBN: 1782843361 1845197690 Year: 2016 Publisher: Brighton Sussex Academic Press

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Heteronormativity, passionate aesthetics and symbolic subversion in Asia
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ISBN: 1782843345 9781782843344 9781782843368 1782843361 9781845195502 1845195507 Year: 2016 Publisher: Eastbourne

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"This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism.The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities"--

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