Gender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring with Dominant Gender Orders Cultural heritage Sophorntavy Vorng is an anthropologist

Sophorntavy Vorng is an anthropologist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany

the ascendant influence and assistance of neighboring countries

and former senior lecturer at the Department of Anthropology

His opponents and supporters dressed themselves in red and yellow and fought battles on the streets

Gender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring with Dominant Gender Orders Cultural heritage Sophorntavy Vorng is an anthropologistEdited by Wil Burghoorn, Kazuki Iwanaga, Cecilia Milwertz & Qi Wang 2008, 221 pp, 15x23 cm. This book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and womens 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 studies from China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. It examines multiple aspects of