Sex, love and feminism in the Asia Pacific

by Chilla Bulbeck

"Sex, love, and feminism are three aspects of the changing gender relations that shape youth people's lives in the Asia Pacific region. This book explores the claim that the rest of the world's women are treading the path to enlightenment and development forged by women in the west through a comparative analysis of the attitudes of young middle-class urbanites in ten countries: the USA, Australia, Canada, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, India, Indonesia, China and Vietnam. Drawing on detailed empirical research, the study describes and compares attitudes towards the women's movement, sexual relations and family arrangements in the countries considered. It explores young people's image of feminists and what they feel the women's movement has achieved for women and men in their country. The book discusses young people's attitudes to controversial gender issues such as role reversal, sharing housework, abortion rights, same-sex sexual relations, and pornography."--Jacket.