This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of t…
Demokrasi menemukan wujud nyata aktualisasinya dalam setiap penyelenggaraan pemilu. Penyelenggaraan pemilu dua kali terakhir, yaitu pada tahun 1999 dan 2004 mangecu pada Undang-undang pemilu yang berbeda, yang disusun setiap menjelang pelaksanaan pemilu. Demikian halnya yang terjadi untuk pemilu 2009 saat ini. Sekalipun beberapa ketentuan yang tertera pada UU No. 12 tahun 2003 belum sempat dite…
In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved renown in the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, and ethnolinguistics during the 1920s a…
"Overcoming Passion" examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual minds and institutions of power fail or refuse to recognise and act in accordance with the knowledge that race e…
Here is a profound crisis in the United States' foster care system, Jill Duerr Berrick writes in this expertly researched, passionately written book. No state has passed the federally mandated Child and Family Service Review; two-thirds of the state systems have faced class-action lawsuits demanding change; and most tellingly, well over half of all children who enter foster care never go home. …