Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific / Maila Stivens -- 2. Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse : the emergence of the military prostitution issue / Vera Mackie -- 3. The state and the women's movement : instabilities in the discourse of 'rights' in India / Kalpana Ram -- 4. Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China / Antonia Finnane -- 5. The human rights of gendered citizens : notes from Indonesia / Krishna Sen -- 6. Woman ikat raet long human raet o no? : women's rights, human rights, and domestic violence in Vanuatu / Margaret Jolly -- 7. 'Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!' : Melanesian women and human rights / Martha MacIntyre -- 8. The contemplacion fiasco : the hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore / Anne-Marie Hilsdon -- 9. Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora : globalization and human rights / Beryl Langer -- 10. The emergence of 'modern' gay identities and the question of human rights / Dennis Altman.

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