Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting and Recognizing Women and Men Language and the colonial and postsocialist

and the colonial and postsocialist eras

there is another green imagination at work

reproduced from a Song wood-block edition

which in its depth

but also of the ritual ‘symbolics’ and internal conflicts of the Lao Royal family

Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting and Recognizing Women and Men Language and the colonial and postsocialistEdited by Helle Rydstrm 2010. 316 (xiii+303) pp., 15x23 cm Global processes with flows in money, commodities and people have challenged and blurred what it means to be a female or male in Asia today. Socioeconomic and cultural patterns in Asia intersect with one another and, in doing so, they translate into power relations that create both possibilities and constraints for both genders. By focusing on unequal access to political and religious power,