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East Asia
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In any East Asian culture, you will find that women have a very tangible power within the household. This is often rejcted by non-Asian feminists who argue that it is not real power, but.. Japanese women look at the low status attributed to the domestic labor of housewives in North America and feel that this amounts to a denigration of a fundamental social role - whether it is performed by a man or a woman.
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― Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism
― Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism
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The widely mis-interpreted 1998 'meltdown' of East Asia was a financial symptom of the renewed reality: In fact, it was the first round the world recession again to begin in East Asia and spread from there to the West, instead of vice versa. That marked the beginnings of the return back 360 degrees around the world of the world economic center to Asia where it had always been before those two eighty-year period of temporary Western ascendance. The stock market crash in Hong Kong and the devaluat
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Stone Bridge Press was established in Berkeley, California, in 1989. We now have some 150 titles…more
60 members,
last active 4 months ago
[ENG] This is the official GoodReads group of Tajfuny, Asian literature publishing house and boo…more
252 members,
last active 4 years ago
Camphor Press is a British-Taiwanese independent publisher, focused on books about East Asia.
2 members,
last active 5 years ago
To whom it may concern: Welcome to the intellectual elite that is our books association. We repr…more
21 members,
last active 4 years ago
