Gender and Sexuality Justice in Asia : Finding Resolutions Through Conflicts,...

by Sharon A. Bong

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Gender and Sexuality Justice in Asia : Finding Resolutions Through Conflicts, Paperback by Goh, Joseph N. (EDT); Bong, Sharon A. (EDT); Kananatu, Thaatchaayini (EDT), ISBN 9811589186, ISBN-13 9789811589188, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book brings together a group of innovative scholars examining the contemporary issue of effecting gender and sexuality justice in the context of Asia, consonant with engendering a just, equitable and sustainable development for all. These grassroots initiatives are woven through three complementary sections of th: gender justice in Asia, sexuality justice in Asia, and finding resolutions through conflict. Th foregrounds strategies that aim to call out and challenge existing gender and sexuality injustices with regard to women and the LGBTIQA+ community by: assessing the efficacy of gender mainstreaming policies through micro-credit schemes for women in East Java, Indonesia; proliferating the signifiers of the hijab (veil) by postmodern Malay-Muslim women or 'Hijabistas’ within the consumerist culture of Malaysia; making visible the injustices of the Syariah legal system for non-Muslim women, and ground-breaking legislation that could potentially recognise same-sex marriages in Thailand; privileging the narratives of gay women diplomats within the highly masculinised field of diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region; foregrounding the narratives of Filipino gay men, intimate partner violence among young Indonesian Christian young peop

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9789811589188
• Condition: Fine

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