Borderlands and women : transversal political agency on the Burma - Thailand border

Mary O'Kane
Clayton, Vic. : Monash Asia Institute, 2005

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Book description
A dynamic women's movement is emerging in the Burma-Thailand borderlands. Through politically active women's stories, this paper attempts to document significant stages in the emergence of this women's movement by focusing on relations of dominance, resistance, utopic desire and their complex interplay in the borderlands out of which their collective identities are woven. In particular, it plots the processes through which women's individual and collective identities undergo transformations in relation to the transversal spaces they inhabit and how in turn they create a gendered political space.

About the author
Mary O'Kane is a consultant and company director. She is Executive Chairman of a business, advising governments and the private sector on innovation, research, education and development. Professor O'Kane was Vice-Chancellor and President of Adelaide University from 1996-2001 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) from 1994-96. She was also Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering within the University and now holds the title of Professor Emeritus.

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