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13-14 October, 2011
FOCUS ASIA:
Women and Children. Contemporary Agents of Change in Asia.
Women in Asian countries face realities that many women in European countries would consider as unacceptable practices, treatments and conditions within the contexts of growing up, family life, marriage, motherhood, work, social relations and mobility. Religious systems, especially Islam, as well as social systems that subject a woman to her father, husband or son are perceived as a major source for the unequal treatment of women.
During the two-days-lasting 15th Focus Asia, the public is presented with original, contemporary research conducted in the Asian, mostly urban, region including China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Pakistan. While some speakers address topics such as motherhood, growing up and identity within particular countries others deal with problems caused by Asian migration, and national and social sentiments, customs and laws from gender or feminist perspectives.
Several presentations will focus on the interplay between social change, especially in regard to rapid changes in the female positioning within society and national laws and policies, which are often in the way of social changes that came into existence to empower women. Speakers will also deal with problematic female categories, with ways how gender is shaped and assumed by male and female actors from childhood on as well as how gender-images are disseminated and discussed. Presentations will be concerned with several female (and male) categories such as children, mothers, single women, male feminists and Islam oriented feminists, and thus ensure a specialised – yet broad and unique in its combination – insight into what and who women and children are in contemporary Asia.
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Venue: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Scheelevägen 15B, Room Alfa 1010
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Abstracts for speakers October 13
Abstracts for speakers October 14
The lectures are open to the public and entry is free of charge.
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