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Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and
present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri
Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia. Written from a feminist
anthropological viewpoint, it considers how far both the colonial
and post-colonial remakings of matrilineal cultural practices
within modernity have left women with what many western feminists
would call a degree of social agency if not autonomy. Maila Stivens
looks critically at the appropriateness of such judgements, at the
same time reflecting on the ways that western knowledge production
and the continuing importance of images of exotic matriarchies in
the western imagination have shaped debates about such societies.
As well as appealing to those with an interest in issues of
gender-and-development, Asian Studies and women’s situation in
modernising societies, the book’s explanation of the past and
present of relatively more egalitarian gender arrangements also
contributes to wider debates about causes of sexual inequality and
the possibilities for gender equality.
First Published in 2004. As the new millennium leaves behind the
most violent of centuries, human rights activists and international
agencies are looking to a new Age of Rights. Feminists have been
prominent among those struggling 'from below' to reconstruct human
rights: the slogan 'women's rights are human rights' has become a
central claim of the global women's movement; feminist theorists
have argued for an explicit inclusion of women and gender in human
rights tenets; and United Nations forums have become central sites
of an energetic new global feminist 'public', providing
unprecedented avenues for feminist initiatives and action. It is
clear, however, that feminist re-shapings of human rights have been
engaged in complex conversations with both human rights claims and
with feminist and gender politics in all their many local versions.
The contributors to this volume address these complex conversations
through a number of case studies within the Asia-Pacific region.
First Published in 2004. As the new millennium leaves behind the
most violent of centuries, human rights activists and international
agencies are looking to a new Age of Rights. Feminists have been
prominent among those struggling 'from below' to reconstruct human
rights: the slogan 'women's rights are human rights' has become a
central claim of the global women's movement; feminist theorists
have argued for an explicit inclusion of women and gender in human
rights tenets; and United Nations forums have become central sites
of an energetic new global feminist 'public', providing
unprecedented avenues for feminist initiatives and action. It is
clear, however, that feminist re-shapings of human rights have been
engaged in complex conversations with both human rights claims and
with feminist and gender politics in all their many local versions.
The contributors to this volume address these complex conversations
through a number of case studies within the Asia-Pacific region.
In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide. This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the politics of human rights and addresses the future of global feminisms. It is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about human rights and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region.
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