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Lost goddesses the denial of female power in Cambodian history Trudy Jacobsen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gendering Asia: a series on gender intersections ; no. 4Publication details: Copenhagen, Denmark NIAS Press c2008.Description: xx, 327 pages illustrations, maps, ports., geneal. tables 23 cmISBN:
  • 9788776940010 (pbk.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4209596 JAC
Contents:
1. Introducing the Goddesses 2. Devi, Rajni, Dasi, Mat 3. Behind the Apsara 4. Goddesses Lost? 5. Hostages, Heroines and Hostilities 6. 'Traditional' Cambodia 7. Cherchez la femme 8. 'Liberation' 9. Into the fields 10. Picking Up the Pieces 11. Contemporary Conspiracies 12. Goddesses Found.
Summary: "In a narrative and visual tour de force, Trudy Jacobsen examines the relationship between women and power in Cambodian history. Here, she seeks to describe when and why the status of women changed and what factors contributed to these changes. Although Cambodian women have been represented at different times as 'powerless' in Western analyses, the author argues that they have continued to exercise authority outside those areas of concern to Western constructs of power."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes index.

Revised thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2004.

Bibliography: p. 291-319.

1. Introducing the Goddesses 2. Devi, Rajni, Dasi, Mat 3. Behind the Apsara 4. Goddesses Lost? 5. Hostages, Heroines and Hostilities 6. 'Traditional' Cambodia 7. Cherchez la femme 8. 'Liberation' 9. Into the fields 10. Picking Up the Pieces 11. Contemporary Conspiracies 12. Goddesses Found.

"In a narrative and visual tour de force, Trudy Jacobsen examines the relationship between women and power in Cambodian history. Here, she seeks to describe when and why the status of women changed and what factors contributed to these changes. Although Cambodian women have been represented at different times as 'powerless' in Western analyses, the author argues that they have continued to exercise authority outside those areas of concern to Western constructs of power."--BOOK JACKET.

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