Maila Stivens
Biographic Data
| ID | 89779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maila Stivens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maila |
| FAMILY NAME | Stivens |
| SIGNATURE | STIVENS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2594-7877 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 168 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rembau femininities
Matriliny and Modernity
Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia. Written from a feminist anthropological viewpoint, it considers how far both the colonial and post-colonial remakings of matrilineal cultural practices within modernity have left women with what many western feminists would call a degree of social agency if not autonomy. Maila…
Gender and the politics of maternalisms
Feminist scholarship has often been profoundly ambivalent about maternalist political mobilisations, seeing them as posing dangers of essentialising motherhood and of colluding with male-centred social orders, conservative politics and top-down state projects. This article looks at the complex and fluid politics of protest groups adopting familial kinship maternalist identities to militate politically for refugees and people seeking asylum, with …
Malaysian ‘matriliny’
The 'matrilineal' social arrangements of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan-the so-called 'daughter' society of the Minangkabau in Sumatra-and of Minangkabau itself have long intrigued observers, including colonial officials, scholars and missionaries, as well as members of surrounding societies. My own original anthropological research among Malays in rural Negeri Sembilan several decades ago was driven by a feminist interest in how 'matrili…
Gender and modernity revisited
This article revisits theorising about the relationships between concepts of gender and modernity, drawing on long-term anthropological research on Southeast Asia. From the 1990s on, now well-known feminist critiques pointed to the profound androcentrism of much theorising about modernity, the many lacunae in such work, and the ways in which masculinity has operated as a core constitutive category of the social. Most theorising about modernity, f…
Making Spaces in Malaysia
This chapter explores the significance of gender relations, gendered action, and women’s rights claims in making new politics, new publics, and new private spheres within the Malaysian national Islamic modernity project. The closely entwined moral projects of a modernizing state and revivalist Islam, especially the highly gendered cultural politics of the recent Islamizing order, have posed significant challenges for both Muslim and non-Muslim ac…
Gendering cosmopolitanisms
Human Rights and Gender Politics
1. Introduction: Gender Politics and the Reimagining of Human Rights in the Asia Pacific Maila Stivens 2. Sexual Violence, Silence, and Human Rights Discourse: The Emergence of the Military Prostitution Issue Vera Mackie 3. The State and The Women's Movement: Instabilities in the Discourse of 'Rights' in India Kalpana Ram 4. Dead Daughters, Dissident Sons, And Human Rights in China Antonia Finnane 5. The HUman Rights of Gendered Citizens: Notes f…
Religion, nation and mother-love
Family, gender and kinship in Australia
Family values' and Islamic revival
Social Anthropology
An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, it draws on material which evokes current problems of policy and administration in the Third World. The author raises questions of vital importance to contemporary investigation and analysis, and pointers to the future for anthropology
Gender and Power in Affluent Asia
Christian Pelras, The Bugis, Cambridge, Blackwell Publishers, 1996, xiii + 386 p., cartes, photogr., fig., réf., index.
Christian PELRAS, The Bugis, Cambridge, Blackwell Publishers, 1996, xiii + 386 p., cartes, photogr., fig., réf., index.. An article from journal Anthropologie et Sociétés (Médiations chamaniques. Sexe et genre), on Érudit.
Maternities and Modernities
Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relations…
Late-Modern Anxieties about Modes of Knowing
Gender at the margins
Economic rationalism and intellectual practice in Asian studies
Why gender matters in Southeast Asian politics
Engels Revisited
Women and Development in South-East Asia, I. Papers
Barbara Rogers, The Domestication of Women
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Three Malay Villages
Sex Roles
Gender and Power in Affluent Asia
Family values' and Islamic revival
Sex Roles
Gendering cosmopolitanisms
Social Anthropology
An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, it draws on material which evokes current problems of policy and administration in the Third World. The author raises questions of vital importance to contemporary investigation and analysis, and pointers to the future for anthropology
Why gender matters in Southeast Asian politics
Gender and the politics of maternalisms
Feminist scholarship has often been profoundly ambivalent about maternalist political mobilisations, seeing them as posing dangers of essentialising motherhood and of colluding with male-centred social orders, conservative politics and top-down state projects. This article looks at the complex and fluid politics of protest groups adopting familial kinship maternalist identities to militate politically for refugees and people seeking asylum, with …
Gender and modernity revisited
This article revisits theorising about the relationships between concepts of gender and modernity, drawing on long-term anthropological research on Southeast Asia. From the 1990s on, now well-known feminist critiques pointed to the profound androcentrism of much theorising about modernity, the many lacunae in such work, and the ways in which masculinity has operated as a core constitutive category of the social. Most theorising about modernity, f…
Engels Revisited
Barbara Rogers, The Domestication of Women
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Three Malay Villages
Matriliny and Modernity
Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia. Written from a feminist anthropological viewpoint, it considers how far both the colonial and post-colonial remakings of matrilineal cultural practices within modernity have left women with what many western feminists would call a degree of social agency if not autonomy. Maila…
Gender at the margins
Economic rationalism and intellectual practice in Asian studies
Women and Development in South-East Asia, I. Papers
Sex Roles
Three Malay Villages
Barbara Rogers, The Domestication of Women
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Women and Development in South-East Asia, I. Papers
Engels Revisited
Why gender matters in Southeast Asian politics
Economic rationalism and intellectual practice in Asian studies
Gender at the margins
Late-Modern Anxieties about Modes of Knowing
Christian Pelras, The Bugis, Cambridge, Blackwell Publishers, 1996, xiii + 386 p., cartes, photogr., fig., réf., index.
Christian PELRAS, The Bugis, Cambridge, Blackwell Publishers, 1996, xiii + 386 p., cartes, photogr., fig., réf., index.. An article from journal Anthropologie et Sociétés (Médiations chamaniques. Sexe et genre), on Érudit.
Maternities and Modernities
Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relations…
Gender and Power in Affluent Asia
Social Anthropology
An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, it draws on material which evokes current problems of policy and administration in the Third World. The author raises questions of vital importance to contemporary investigation and analysis, and pointers to the future for anthropology
Family values' and Islamic revival
Religion, nation and mother-love
Family, gender and kinship in Australia
Human Rights and Gender Politics
1. Introduction: Gender Politics and the Reimagining of Human Rights in the Asia Pacific Maila Stivens 2. Sexual Violence, Silence, and Human Rights Discourse: The Emergence of the Military Prostitution Issue Vera Mackie 3. The State and The Women's Movement: Instabilities in the Discourse of 'Rights' in India Kalpana Ram 4. Dead Daughters, Dissident Sons, And Human Rights in China Antonia Finnane 5. The HUman Rights of Gendered Citizens: Notes f…
Making Spaces in Malaysia
This chapter explores the significance of gender relations, gendered action, and women’s rights claims in making new politics, new publics, and new private spheres within the Malaysian national Islamic modernity project. The closely entwined moral projects of a modernizing state and revivalist Islam, especially the highly gendered cultural politics of the recent Islamizing order, have posed significant challenges for both Muslim and non-Muslim ac…
Gendering cosmopolitanisms
Gender and modernity revisited
This article revisits theorising about the relationships between concepts of gender and modernity, drawing on long-term anthropological research on Southeast Asia. From the 1990s on, now well-known feminist critiques pointed to the profound androcentrism of much theorising about modernity, the many lacunae in such work, and the ways in which masculinity has operated as a core constitutive category of the social. Most theorising about modernity, f…
Malaysian ‘matriliny’
The 'matrilineal' social arrangements of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan-the so-called 'daughter' society of the Minangkabau in Sumatra-and of Minangkabau itself have long intrigued observers, including colonial officials, scholars and missionaries, as well as members of surrounding societies. My own original anthropological research among Malays in rural Negeri Sembilan several decades ago was driven by a feminist interest in how 'matrili…
Rembau femininities
Matriliny and Modernity
Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia. Written from a feminist anthropological viewpoint, it considers how far both the colonial and post-colonial remakings of matrilineal cultural practices within modernity have left women with what many western feminists would call a degree of social agency if not autonomy. Maila…
Gender and the politics of maternalisms
Feminist scholarship has often been profoundly ambivalent about maternalist political mobilisations, seeing them as posing dangers of essentialising motherhood and of colluding with male-centred social orders, conservative politics and top-down state projects. This article looks at the complex and fluid politics of protest groups adopting familial kinship maternalist identities to militate politically for refugees and people seeking asylum, with …
Sociology (19 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Asian Studies and History (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)