Women in Asia

Sharon Sievers, Barbara N. Ramusack

ISBN 10: 0253212677 / ISBN 13: 9780253212672

Published by Indiana University Press, US, 1999

About this Item

"These four volumes in this major series . . . provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded. . . . A basic set for all academic libraries." -Library Journal Academic Newswire Writing on South and Southeast Asia, 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. Sievers presents an overview of women's participation in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the modern period.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women in Asia
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, US
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253212677
• ISBN 13: 9780253212672
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 476 grams

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Synopsis

"These four volumes in this major series . . . provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded. . . . A basic set for all academic libraries." ―Library Journal Academic Newswire

Writing on South and Southeast Asia, 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. Sievers presents an overview of women's participation in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the modern period.

About the Author

Barbara N. Ramusack is Professor of History and Department Head at the University of
Cincinnati, where she is a founding member of the Center for Women's
Studies. She has published The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empire
and several articles on British feminists and Indian women.

Sharon Sievers is professor of modern Japanese history and department
chair at California State University, Long Beach, where she has also
served as director of the Women's Studies Program. Sievers is best known
for her prize-winning book on turn-of-the century women in Japan, entitled
Flowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan.