Gender and the sexes in the Indonesian Archipelago

Review of collection of studies regarding gender in several regions of Southeast Asia. The articles in this volume, first presented as papers at a conference of the Association for South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom, add to the literature on gender in Southeast Asia. Although that litera...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schouten, Maria Johanna Christina (author)
Formato: review
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2017
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/4417
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ubibliorum.ubi.pt:10400.6/4417
Descrição
Resumo:Review of collection of studies regarding gender in several regions of Southeast Asia. The articles in this volume, first presented as papers at a conference of the Association for South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom, add to the literature on gender in Southeast Asia. Although that literature may seem extensive by now, this publication is certainly not repetitive or redundant. On the contrary, besides presenting awealth of data, it attests to how useful and refreshing an approach which focuses on gender and gender relations can be, even when examining seemingly well-known facts.