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Email

m.stivens@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Principal Fellow)
Asia Institute
Education
PhD
University of London
Masters (Research)
University of Sydney
ORCID

0000-0003-2594-7877

A/Prof Maila Stivens

Honorary (Principal Fellow)
Asia Institute

97 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Matriliny
    DOI: 10.4135/9781071918494.n229
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Gender and the politics of maternalisms: Kinship-based imaginaries, responsibility and care in Australian refugee advocacy
    DOI: 10.1177/0308275X231216258
  • 2023

    Book

    Matriliny and modernity: Sexual politics and social change in rural Malaysia
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003457183
  • 2023

    Book

    Matriliny and Modernity
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003457183
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Women, kinship and capitalist development
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003396635-9
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Malaysian ‘matriliny’: past, present and future
    DOI: 10.37839/mar2652-550x10.12
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    The Hope of the Nation: Moral Panics and the Construction of Teenagerhood in Contemporary Malaysia
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003062417-11
Maila Stivens

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    The private life of the extended family: Family, kinship and class in a middle class suburb of Sydney
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003114987-2
  • 2020

    Journal article

    [Review of the book, Elite Malay Polygamy: Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeiten
    DOI: 10.1355/sj35-1f
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Gender and modernity revisited: Dialogues with Joel Kahn
    DOI: 10.1177/0308275X19856427

RECENT PROJECTS

  • Research Grant

    Imagining the Asian Child: Towards an Anthropology of New Asian Childhoods

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