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…
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 …
"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…
Buku modul perempuan untuk politik ini memuat persoalan-persoalan yang dihadapi permpuan dalam politik. Di dalamnya kita akan diperkenalkan pada apa makna politik, apa hambatan-hambatan perempuan yang ingin terjun ke dunia politik, serta bagaimana agar perempuan dapat melakukan perubahan sedari sekarang. Buku ini juga memuat panduan-panduan praktis disertai dengan data, pengalaman, dan kecende…