Part title; Title page; Contents; Notes on contributors; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000; 2 Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth century; 3 The status of women in a patriarchal state: the case of Singapore; 4 Women in the People's Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative; 5 Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience; 6 Negotiating modernities: Filipino women 1970-2000; 7 Indonesian women: from Order Baru to Reformasi; 8 Rhetoric or reality? Contesting definitions of women in Korea
Summary
A comprehensive coverage of all the major Asian countries by experts in the field
