Women in Asia (Restoring Women to History)

Ramusack, Barbara N.; Sievers, Sharon L.

ISBN 10: 0253334810 ISBN 13: 9780253334817

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Writing on South and Southeast Asia, Barbara N Ramusack surveys both the prescriptive roles and lived experiences of women as well as the construction of gender from the period of the early states to the 1990s. Although both east and Southeast Asia are home to the Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim religious traditions, and had extended trade relations, they reveal striking differences in the status and roles of women and the processes of cultural adaptation. Sharon Sievers presents an overview of women's participation in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the modern period that provides a framework for incorporating women into world history classrooms. It offers analyses on major issues derived from recent research and discusses such stereotypical cultural practices as foot binding (long seen as "exotic" in the west) in the context of women's lives.

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About the Author

Barbara N. Ramusack is Professor of History and Department Head at the University ofCincinnati, where she is a founding member of the Center for Women'sStudies. She has published The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empireand several articles on British feminists and Indian women.Sharon Sievers is professor of modern Japanese history and departmentchair at California State University, Long Beach, where she has alsoserved as director of the Women's Studies Program. Sievers is best knownfor her prize-winning book on turn-of-the century women in Japan, entitledFlowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253334810
• ISBN 13: 9780253334817
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 216