ABSTRACT
As an answer to the above-mentioned gap, feminist scholars have been at the forefront in creating/displaying alternative subject positions (Ferguson 1993). This chapter takes inspiration from such literature and moves beyond established stereotypes of women as apolitical. In turn, we offer a more nuanced and complex analysis of Cambodian women’s subjectivities and subject positions in respect to political representation. Namely, we explore discourses on and experiences of women who from their respective “ordinary” and “elite” positions are influencing both the country’s evolving terrain of domestic politics and gender relations. Overall, we will address the “doings” of politics in a broad sense, embracing national politics, activism and practices of “everyday resistance”, which negotiates current discourses of gender.
