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A/PROF MAILA STIVENS



Contact Details

Organization: Asia Institute
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
Email:
Homepage: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/staff/stivens.html
Work: +61 3 8344 3556
Fax: +61 3 9349 4870
Room: 207
Level: 02
Building: Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Globalisation, modernity and postmodernity in social theory, gender relations globally, global/transnational feminisms and feminist theory Gender, Southeast Asia, family and kinship Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Singapore National University of Singapore Research
Malaysia National University of Malaysia Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts University of Sydney
Doctor of Philosophy University of London

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Unspecified Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth (UK) Member 31-Dec-1978
Unspecified Asian Studies Association of Australia Member 31-Dec-1990

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Imagining the Asian Child: Towards an Anthropology of New Asian Childhoods Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Gender, Rights and Cosmopolitanisms
    Year: 2008
    Book: Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives,
    Publisher: Berg Publishers(Oxford)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Postmodern Motherhoods and Cultural Contest in Malaysia and Singapore
    Year: 2007
    Book: Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities
    Publisher: NUS Press
    Authors(s):

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • 'Family values' and Islamic Revival: Gender, Rights and State Moral Projects in Malaysiai
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Women's Studies International Forum
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 354-367
    Author(s):
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  • Thinking (again) about gender in Asia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: N I A S Nytt: Asia insight
    Volume: July 2006
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 15, 19
    Author(s):
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Gender
    Year: 2005
    Book: A Handbook of Economic Anthropology
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • (Re) Framing Women's Rights Claims in Malaysia
    Year: 2003
    Book: Islam, Society and Politics
    Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
    Authors(s):
  • Babies, Borders and Boundaries: Cultural Politics Overboard in Australia
    Year: 2003
    Book: Social Exclusion: an approach to the Australian case
    Publisher: Lang - Peter Lang(Frankfurt)
    Authors(s):

Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Gendering Asian exceptionalism: 'public', 'private' and Asian modernities
    Year: 2002
    Book: East Asian capitalism, conflicts, growth and crisis
    Publisher: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Milano(Milano)
    Authors(s):
  • The hope of the nation: Moral panics and the construction of teenagerhood in contemporary Malaysia
    Year: 2002
    Book: Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, courtship and sexuality
    Publisher: Curzon Press(Surrey)
    Authors(s):
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