Gender and Power in Affluent AsiaKrishna Sen, Maila Stivens Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relatioships between gender and power that have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence. |
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reframing the subject | 35 |
3 Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town | 63 |
4 Sex gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes | 87 |
women and the middleclass way of life in Singapore | 127 |
women and consumerism in postMao China | 167 |
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