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Maila Stivens

Honorary
Asia Institute
Gender
Southeast Asia
family and kinship
social sciences
women's studies
gender
anthropology
malaysia
area studies
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Imagining the Asian Child: Towards an Anthropology of New Asian Childhoods

This innovative study will be of both popular and scholarly interest. The future of childhoods is a key concern in Australia and globally, w..

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Scholarly Works

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Elite Malay Polygamy: Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia

Maila Stivens

Journal article  |  2020  |  SOJOURN-JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen’s richly detailed study of contemporary elite Malay polygamy in Malaysia is a welcome addition to scho..

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Becoming modern in Malaysia: Women at the end of the twentieth century

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Book Chapter  |  2020

As the new century unfolds, these are heady times for Malaysia. The country has been riding the waves of Reformasi, the reform mov..

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Gender and modernity revisited: Dialogues with Joel Kahn

Maila Stivens

Journal article  |  2019  |  Critique of Anthropology

This article revisits theorising about the relationships between concepts of gender and modernity, drawing on long-term anthropolo..

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Gendering cosmopolitanisms: Hospitality and the asylum seeker Other

Maila Stivens

Journal article  |  2018  |  WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM

Debates about cosmopolitanism have pointed both to its exclusionary character as a problematic child of western modernity, analyti..

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Editorial for special section "Gendering cosmopolitanisms: Recognition, belonging and difference," womens' studies international forum

Ruth P Fitzgerald, Maila Stivens

Journal article  |  2018  |  WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM

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Making Spaces in Malaysia: Women's Rights and New Muslim Religiosities

M Stivens

Book Chapter  |  2017

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Gender, Sharia and the Politics of Punishment: A Contemporary Malaysian Case

M STIVENS

Book Chapter  |  2015

This book resists the homogenization of Muslim women by detailing the diversity in their lives and by challenging the dominant par..

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‘Family Values’ and Islamic Revival: Gender, Rights and State Moral Projects in Malaysia’ (Revised version of ‘Family Values’ and Islamic Revival: Gender, Rights and State Moral Projects in Malaysia’, in Women’s Studies International Forum, Special Double Issue, Human Rights, Gender and Islam, Volume 29, Issue 4, July-August.)

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Book Chapter  |  2013

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Gender and the Interplay of Rural and Urban: A Malaysian Case

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Book Chapter  |  2013

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Gender and the interplay of rural and urban: A Malaysian case

M Stivens

Book Chapter  |  2013

This chapter argues for the significance of gender relations in thinking about the evolution of the relationships between the ‘urb..

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Keyword Analysis

Gender Studies
Other Culture and Society
Other Human Society
Anthropology
Expanding Knowledge
Cultural Studies
Religion
Sociology

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Asia Institute

Honorary

Asia Institute

Member

Asian Studies Association of Australia

Member

Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth (UK)

Education

Master of Arts

University of Sydney

Doctor of Philosophy

University of London

Links

International Linkages

University of Malaya

Malaysia

National University of Singapore

Singapore