Books By Maila Stivens - Author

Maila Stivens is Principal Research Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. Previously Director of Gender Studies at Melbourne, she studied anthropology at the London School of Economics, and has also taught at University College, London, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), as well as holding fellowships at NUS and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She has published widely on her research which has included studies of middle-class kinship in Sydney; 'matriliny', gender relations and modernity, and work and family in Malaysia; childhood in Southeast Asia; 'family values'; and, latterly, asylum seeker issues in Australia.