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Title Gender and global politics in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo
Edition First edition
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description xviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Preface : how Jindy Pettman redrew my mental map / Cynthia Enloe -- Critical feminist international relations in the Asia-Pacific / Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo -- "Worlding women" in international law / Hilary Charlesworth -- Gendered economies in the Asia-Pacific / V. Spike Peterson -- The "kitsch" of war : misappropriating Sun Tzu for an American imperial hypermasculinity / Ching-Chane Hwang and L.H.M. Ling -- When the UN "succeeds" : the case of Cambodia / Sandra Whitworth -- Feminizing global governance / Shirin M. Rai -- Confessions of a failed feminist IR scholar : feminist methodologies in practice in Peshawar / Anne McNevin -- One woman's everyday resistance : an empowering yet cautionary tale from Vietnam / Kim Huynh -- Women's engagement with Islam in South and Southeast Asia / Shakira Hussein -- Gender mainstreaming in a post-conflict state : toward democratic peace in Timor-Leste? / Nina Hall and Jacqui True -- Shifting terrains of transnational engagement : women's organizing in Fiji / Nicole George -- Reclaiming Pacific Island regionalism : does neoliberalism have to reign? / Claire Slatter and Yvonne Underhill-Sem -- A feminist politics of region? : reflecting and revisioning IR from Asia and the Pacific / Jindy Pettman -- Afterword / J. Ann Tickner
Summary "Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific is a collaboration of feminist IR scholars. Through the gender lens, this collection addresses some of the most pressing issues facing the global politics of the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-259) and index
Subject Women -- Political activity -- Asia.
Women -- Political activity -- Pacific Area.
Geopolitics -- Asia.
Geopolitics -- Pacific Area.
Author D'Costa, Bina.
Lee-Koo, Katrina.
LC no. 2008035159
ISBN 0230611605
9780230611603