Description

How and to what degree are women worldwide gaining and using power? This book offers the first genuinely comparative assessment of this key question by exploring the conditions, actions, and accomplishments of women in Latin America and Asia. Encompassing 60 percent of the world's population and experiencing far-reaching transformations, these two regions offer a vital window into our understanding of the experiences of women globally. Revealing both basic similarities and fundamental differences, this volume offers thoughtful insights about the changing conditions of women, on the one hand, and, on the other, about patterns of social change throughout Asia and Latin America.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction: Empowering Women: Agency, Structure, and Comparative Perspective
Part 3 Politics and the Public Arena
Chapter 4 Many Paths to Power: Women in Contemporary Asia
Chapter 5 Climbing the Pyramids of Power: Alternative Routes to Women's Empowerment and Activism
Chapter 6 From the Personal to the Political: Women Activists in Japan
Chapter 7 Feminism and the Transition to Democracy in Chile
Part 8 At Work and at Home
Chapter 9 Women and Economic Crisis: Mexico and Thailand
Chapter 10 Women, Poverty, and Survival of the Household: Peru
Chapter 11 Women in the Business World: Japan in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 12 Women and the Internet in China
Part 13 Constructions and Representations
Chapter 14 Social Codes and Gender Roles: Schoolbooks in Korea and Mexico
Chapter 15 Women and Cinema in Mexico
Chapter 16 Gender and Sexuality on Television: Japan and Brazil
Chapter 17 Conclusion: States, Markets, and Patterns of Empowerment

Product details

Published Apr 05 2004
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9780742529236
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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