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Subject: Gender studies
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Early Chinese Periodicals Online (EPCO)
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ECPO joins together several important digital collections of the early Chinese press and puts them into a single overarching framework: WoMag (http://womag.uni-hd.de) is a richly-tagged database of the contents of four influential women’s magazines published between 1904 and 1937, including scanned copies and additional high-level scans of images and fukan/insert materials. Xiaobao (http://xiaobao.uni-hd.de) provides basic publication data […]
Anthropology. Ethnography, Area studies, Art history, China studies, Cultural politics, Cultural studies, Culture. humanities, Gender, Gender studies, General, History, Humanities, Literature, Media, Medicine, News, Political history, Politics, Religion, Social and economic history, Sociology, Women’s studies
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Chinese Women’s Magazines in the late Qing and early Republican period
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The WoMag database contains records about (almost) all articles, images, and advertisements of four important women’s magazines, namely _ Nüzi shijie_ (Women’s World, 1904-07), Funü shibao (The Women’s Eastern Times, 1911-17), Funü zazhi (The Ladies’ Journal, 1915-31), and Linglong (Elegance, 1931-37). All magazines can be browsed chronologically, by year/volume, month, and issue down to the […]
Art history, China studies, Cultural studies, Culture. humanities, General, History, Media, Society, Women’s studies
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Sinica Sinoweb
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Sinica Sinoweb provides full-text access to the archive of 14 journals from Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, with the earliest dating back to as early as 1928: Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History Academia Sinica Research on […]
Anthropology. Ethnography, China studies, Culture. humanities, Folklore, Folklore studies, History, Humanities, Language and linguistics, Law, Literature, Philosophy, Women’s studies
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Korea Open Access Journals KOAJ
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Provided by the National Research Foundation of Korea this website gives access to (at present) 1250 journals of which 53 are available in fulltext. Subjects covered Humanities (334) Social Science (476) Natural Science (48) Engineering (69) Medicine and Pharmacy (150) Marine Agriculture, Fishery (23) Arts and Kinesiology (71) Interdisciplinary Studies (78)
Agriculture, Area studies, Art, Business. Management, Culture. humanities, Development; Economics, Economics, Gender studies, Geography, Humanities, Language and linguistics, Law, Literature, Media, Natural Sciences, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Science and technology, Social sciences
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Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond
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Edited by Peter A. Jackson & Benjamin Baumann In central Thailand, a flamboyantly turbaned gay medium for the Hindu god of the underworld posts Facebook selfies of himself hugging and kissing a young man. In Myanmar’s largest city Yangon, a one-time member of a gay NGO dons an elaborate wedding dress to be ritually married […]
Read moreThe Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan
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Edited by Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi Gender and sexuality in Japan has long been a field of academic study, with gender mainly being examined either as masculinities, femininities or as deviating sexualities. In recent years, however, widespread interest in manga, anime and cosplay among the world’s youth has aroused popular interest in the […]
Read moreBeijing Women Organizing for Change: A New Wave of the Chinese Women’s Movement
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Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz 2011 Independent and quasi-independent organizing in China really began earliest in the women’s community but the importance of this 15-year experience has not been documented adequately. The book first introduces the emergence since the mid-1980s of new types of women’s organization in China from the earlier situation of the All-China Women’s Federation […]
Read moreBeijing Women Organizing for Change: A New Wave of the Chinese Women's Movement
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Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz 2011 Independent and quasi-independent organizing in China really began earliest in the women’s community but the importance of this 15-year experience has not been documented adequately. The book first introduces the emergence since the mid-1980s of new types of women’s organization in China from the earlier situation of the All-China Women’s Federation […]
Read moreGender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring with Dominant Gender Orders
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Wil Burghoorn, Kazuki Iwanaga, Cecilia Milwertz & Qi Wang (eds) 2008 This book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and women’s strategies to negotiate and change gender relations individually or collectively. It examines cultural complexities of gender by focusing on gender politics in Asia, with case studis from China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand […]
Read moreDemocratising Indonesia: The Challenges of Civil Society in the Era of Reformasi
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Mikaela Nyman 2006 The fall from power of Indonesia’s President Suharto in 1998 has drawn much media and academic attention but the focus has been on the elite perspective, the role of the regime and military; little has been published on civil society, let alone gender issues. This study, which covers the period from Suharto’s […]
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