The Flaming Womb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flaming Womb write by Barbara Watson Andaya. This book was released on 2006-01-01. The Flaming Womb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Princess of the Flaming Womb, the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet, despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relations in Southeast Asia is central to arguments claiming a coherent identity for the region. This challenging work by senior scholar Barbara Watson Andaya considers such contradictions while offering a thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women's roles and perceptions. Andaya explores the broad themes of the early modern era (1500-1800) - the introduction of new religions, major economic shifts, changing patterns of state control, the impact of elite lifestyles and behaviors - drawing on an extraordinary range of sources and citing numerous examples from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine, and Malay societies.
The Flaming Womb
The Flaming Womb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flaming Womb write by Barbara Watson Andaya. This book was released on 2006-07-31. The Flaming Womb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male–female relations in Southeast Asia is central to arguments claiming a coherent identity for the region. This challenging work by senior scholar Barbara Watson Andaya considers such contradictions while offering a thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women’s roles and perceptions. Andaya explores the broad themes of the early modern era (1500–1800)—the introduction of new religions, major economic shifts, changing patterns of state control, the impact of elite lifestyles and behaviors—drawing on an extraordinary range of sources and citing numerous examples from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine, and Malay societies. In the process, she provides a timely and innovative model for putting women back into world history Andaya approaches the problematic issue of "Southeast Asia" by considering ways in which topography helped describe a geo-cultural zone and contributed to regional distinctiveness in gender construction. She examines the degree to which world religions have been instrumental in (re)constructing conceptions of gender— an issue especially pertinent to Southeast Asian societies because of the leading role so often played by women in indigenous ritual. She also considers the effects of the expansion of long-distance trade, the incorporation of the region into a global trading network, the beginnings of cash-cropping and wage labor, and the increase in slavery on the position of women. Erudite, nuanced, and accessible, The Flaming Womb makes a major contribution to a Southeast Asia history that is both regional and global in content and perspective.
Women in Asia
Women in Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Asia write by Barbara N. Ramusack. This book was released on 1999-06-22. Women in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Barbara N. Ramusack writes on South and Southeast Asia, surveying both the prescriptive roles and the lived experiences of women, as well as the construction of gender from early states to the 1990s. Although both regions are home to Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim religious traditions and had extended trade relations, they reveal striking differences in the status and roles of women and the processes of cultural adaptation. Sharon Sievers presents an verview of women's participation in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the modern period that provides a framework for incorporating women into world history classrooms. It offers analyses on major issues derived from recent research and discusses such stereotypical cultural practices as footbinding (long seen as "exotic" in the West) in the context of women's lives. Book jacket.
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830 write by Barbara Watson Andaya. This book was released on 2015-02-19. A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by two expert and highly esteemed authors, this is the much-anticipated textbook on the early modern history of Southeast Asia.
The Book of Bera
The Book of Bera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Bera write by Suzie Wilde. This book was released on 2017-03-23. The Book of Bera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Born and raised in a stark, coastal village on the shore of the Ice-Rimmed Sea, Bera is the daughter of a Valla, the Vikings’ most powerful seers. But her mother died when she was young, leaving Bera alone with her gift, unable to control her feckless twin spirit or understand her visions of the future. When this inability leads to the death of her childhood friend at the hands of a rival clan, Bera vows revenge. And learning that her father has sold her into marriage with the murderous enemy’s chieftain, she is presented with an opportunity even sooner than she had hoped... As her powers grow stronger, her visions of looming disaster become more and more ominous until she is faced with the ultimate choice: will she exact vengeance? Or can she lead her people to safety before it’s too late?
