TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baer,Adela
AU  - Bala,Poline
AU  - Cheng Sim,Hew
AU  - Ching,Goy Siew
AU  - Crabtree,Sara Ashencaen
AU  - Kee,Ling How
AU  - Long,Low Kuek
AU  - Sim,Hew Cheng
TI  - Village Mothers, City Daughters: Women and Urbanization in Sarawak 
SN  - 9789812304162
AV  - HQ1750.6 .V55 2015
U1  - 305.409595 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Singapore : 
PB  - ISEAS Publishing, 
KW  - Rural-urban migration
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Sarawak
KW  - Rural-urban migration--Social aspects--Malaysia--Sarawak
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Urbanization--Social aspects--Malaysia--Sarawak
KW  - Women
KW  - Employment
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women--Employment--Malaysia--Sarawak
KW  - Women--Malaysia--Sarawak--Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; The Contributors --; 1 Urbanization in Sarawak: A Context --; 2 Gender, Wages and Labour Migration --; 3 Women and Health --; 4 Madness and the Hegemony of Healing: The Legacy of Colonial Psychiatry in Sarawak --; 5 Elderly Women’s Experiences of Urbanization --; 6 Like a Chicken Standing on One Leg: Urbanization and Single Mothers --; 7 From Highlands to Lowlands: Kelabit Women and Their Migrant Daughters --; 8 Conclusion --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This unique volume draws together a compelling collection of studies on the diverse and transformatory experiences of women as they encounter the forces of modernization altering the face of contemporary Borneo. The authors, all locally based scholars specializing in gender issues, shed much-needed light upon this hidden academic area. It presents the human and gendered face of development and discusses the pressing issue of urbanization and rural-urban migration in its many facets as experienced by women in this multicultural and fascinating region in Southeast Asia
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812305725
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789812305725
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789812305725/original
ER  -