Hew, Cheng Sim (2017) Whither Gender Studies in Sarawak? In: Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture. Asia in Transition, Part 2 (4). Springer Singapore. ISBN Online ISBN 978-981-10-0672-2
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This chapter reviews gender research in the field of sociology and anthropology in Sarawak. The discussion is contextualised in the wider debates of women and gender studies and explores the development of anthropology of women to a feminist anthropology and a feminist ethnography. The chapter argues three salient points. First, research that disaggregates women and men and discusses their differential experience of a social phenomenon is not necessarily a gender study because, for the purposes of this chapter, gender studies is defined as research with an explicit feminist agenda. Second, anthropologists studying indigenous societies in Sarawak often point out that gender is unmarked and therefore gender relations are of little interest. I argue instead that gender is deeply implicated in processes of social transformation and the black box of gender relations requires unpacking in the context of rapidly changing Sarawak. Third, the future of gender studies in Sarawak in the field of anthropology and sociology is challenging, as there is no critical mass of researchers and academics in this specific field for capacity building among students and young scholars.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Anthropology, Sociology, Gender studies, Feminism, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Karen Kornalius |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2017 01:45 |
| Last Modified: | 25 May 2017 00:18 |
| URI: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15761 |
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