Gender, power, and military occupations : Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1945 / edited by Christine de Matos and Rowena Ward. - New York : Routledge, 2012. - viii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in gender and history ; 12 . - Routledge research in gender and history ; 12. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Analyzing gendered occupation power / Christine de Matos and Rowena Ward -- Occupation masculinities : the residues of colonial power in Australian occupied Japan / Christine de Matos -- Encountering national and gendered selves : identity formation of Okinawan students in the United States during the US occupation of Okinawa / Kinuko Maehara Yamazato -- Histories of violence : occupation, resistance and masculinities in Timor Leste / Henri Myrttinen -- Lily pads and leisure meccas : the gendered political economy of post-base and post-9/11 Philippines / Bronwyn Winter -- Chamorro warriors and godmothers meet Uncle Sam : gender, loyalty and resistance to US military occupation in postwar Guam / Miyume Tanji -- The Northern Territory intervention in Australia : a grassroots perspective / Miliwanga Sandy and Kathleen Clapham -- Caught between cultures : how the occupation of Iraq is reinforcing and redefining gender roles / Marcus Schulzke -- The people follow the mullah, and the mullah follows the people : politics of aid and gender in Afghanistan post-2001 / Joyce Wu -- Abu Ghraib : a ghostly story / Stefka Hristova -- The national struggle and women's rights : the case of Palestine / Rose Shomali Musleh -- This garden uprooted : gendered violence, suffering and resistance in Indian-administered Kashmir / Shubh Mathur -- Forced encounters and gendered impacts : past, present and future / Keiko Tamura.

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Control (Psychology)
Military occupation.
Sex role.
Violence.

BF632.5 / .G46 2012

355.49081 / G3255