Women's Asia / Yayori Matsui.
"This book challenges the direct responsibility of Japan's affluent society for the impoverishment of Asian women's lives ... Drawing on her recent assignments in seventeen Asian countries, Yayori Matsui shows the daily challenges faced by women from many different classes and culture...
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London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. :
Zed Books,
[1989]
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Table of Contents:
- From despair to self-reliance : poor women in Bangladesh
- Women plantation workers : colonial rule, past and present
- Women workers in modern factories : impact of Japanese-style management
- Migrant women workers : abuse and isolation
- Sexual exploitation of women : child prostitution and the expanding sex industry
- Dowry and rape : women against traditional discrimination
- Religion and women's perspectives : from oppressive tools to liberation force
- A tradition of matriarchy : the vitality of Burmese women
- Women create a new Philippines : President Aquino and women power
- Korean women for democratization : the mothers' courageous struggle
- Women foraging a future : emerging Asian feminist movements
- Thanks to all Asian women.