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Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality? Ann Brooks provides a unique insight into this question by assessing the impact of the new economy and the changing labour market on women in Asia. The research is set against the backdrop of Southeast Asia more generally and international comparisons are also drawn.

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Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality? Ann Brooks provides a unique insight into this question by assessing the impact of the new economy and the changing labour market on women in Asia. The research is set against the backdrop of Southeast Asia more generally and international comparisons are also drawn.
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Autorenporträt
Dr Ann Brooks is a British academic who left London in 1993 to take up an academic position at Massey University in New Zealand. She was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Massey University from 1993-2002. In 2002 she relocated to Singapore and is currently Head of Psychology and Sociology Programmes in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, at SIM University in Singapore. Dr Brooks has published extensively in the area of academic women and equity, contemporary feminisms, cultural theory and politics, post colonialism and feminism, citizenship and social justice and more recently globalization, gender and changing work identities. She has written several books on the topics of Academic Women, Post Feminism, and Cultural Theory. Her most recent research is located at the intersecting nexus of contemporary theorizing within gender and feminism particularly in exploring the relationship between intimacy and reflexivity in the construction of the gendered self. Her particular interest is in the construction of the self within late modernity in relation to professional and personal domains.