Women's suffrage in Asia gender, nationalism and democracy / [electronic resource] : edited by Louise Edwards and Mina Roces. - London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. - xvi, 253 p. : ill., ports. - RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; 16 . - RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; 16. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : orienting the global women's suffrage movement / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces -- 2. Is the suffragist an American colonial construct? : defining 'the Filipino woman' in colonial Philippines / Mina Roces -- 3. Chinese women's campaigns for suffrage : nationalism, Confucianism and political agency / Louise Edwards -- 4. Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia / Susan Blackburn -- 5. Women's suffrage in Viêt Nam / Micheline R. Lessard -- 6. Citizenship and suffrage in interwar Japan / Barbara Molony -- 7. Expanding their realm : women and public agency in colonial Korea / Ken Wells -- 8. The politics of women's suffrage in Thailand / Tamara Loos -- 9. Tradition, law and the female suffrage movement in India / Gail Pearson -- 10. Settler anxieties, indigenous peoples and women's suffrage in the colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawai'i, 1888 to 1902 / Patricia Grimshaw.




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