ASAA Women in Asia Series
About the Book Series
The primary aim of this important series is to publish original, high quality work on all aspects of women in Asia. Submissions are welcomed from prospective authors, both new and established scholars, working in any appropriate discipline, and should in the first instance be sent to the series editor. Email: [email protected]
Editorial Board:
Hyaeweol Choi (University of Iowa)
Melissa Crouch (University of New South Wales)
Laura Dales (University of Western Australia)
Michele Ford (The University of Sydney)
Trude Jacobsen (Northern Illinois University)
Tanya Jakimow (University of New South Wales)
Lenore Lyons (Independent scholar)
Vera Mackie (University of Wollongong)
Anne McLaren (The University of Melbourne)
Mina Roces (University of New South Wales)
Dina Siddiqi (New York University)
Andrea Whittaker (The University of Queensland)
Domestic Violence, Islam and Gender in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Balawyn Jones
August 28, 2025
Based on extensive original research, this book explores how the Indonesian Anti-Domestic Violence Law is understood and applied in practice. Drawing on an in-depth case study from the province of Aceh, the book canvasses informal and formal help-seeking avenues for domestic violence victims, ...
Women in Their Thirties in Japan: Life Course and Happiness
1st Edition
By Kaori H. Okano
June 20, 2025
This book examines the lived experiences of a group of Japanese women through their thirties, revealing the dynamic of human agency responding to the social changes of Japan’s ‘lost decades’. Exploring how these working-class women made choices and acted on them in pursuit of happiness through ...
North Korea's Women-led Grassroots Capitalism
1st Edition
By Bronwen Dalton, Kyungja Jung
May 06, 2025
North Korea is in the throes of economic and social, if not political, transition. These changes have a pronounced gender dimension: the crisis of the command economy and the gradual emergence of an informal market economy, where, remarkably, the vast majority of North Korea’s traders and merchants...
Pious Girls: Young Muslim Women in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Annisa R. Beta
April 14, 2025
This book, based on extensive original research, examines young Muslim women’s groups in Indonesia to show how a new type of young Muslim woman is emerging: pious and loyal to traditional Muslim ideas, whilst at the same time entrepreneurial, comfortable with the world of neoliberal capitalism, ...
Face-veiled Women in Contemporary Indonesia
1st Edition
By Eva F. Nisa
May 27, 2024
Face veiling is relatively new in Indonesia. It is often stereotyped as a sign of extremism and the growing Arabisation of Indonesian Muslims. It is also perceived as a symbol that demonstrates a lack of female agency. However, increasing numbers of women are choosing to wear the cadar (the full ...
Women and Martial Art in Japan
1st Edition
By Kate Sylvester
May 27, 2024
This book, based on extensive original research, examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo, the Japanese martial art which, using bamboo swords as well as protective armour, and descended from traditional swordsmanship, instils in its practitioners, besides physical ...
Women, Media, and Power in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Jane Ahlstrand
September 25, 2023
This book demonstrates the crucial link between gender and structures of power in democratic Indonesia, and the role of the online news media in regulating this relationship of power. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a theoretical framework, and social actor analysis as the methodological...
Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia: Silent Desire
1st Edition
By Irma Riyani
May 30, 2022
This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women. As well as describing and analysing their sexual relationships, the book also investigates how Islam influences discourses of sexuality in Indonesia, and in particular how Islamic teachings affect Muslim ...
Gender, Violence and Power in Indonesia: Across Time and Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Katharine McGregor, Ana Dragojlovic, Hannah Loney
December 13, 2021
This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to chart how various forms of violence – domestic, military, legal and political – are not separate instances of violence, but rather embedded in structural inequalities brought about by colonialism, occupation and state violence. The book ...
Hong Kong Rural Women under Chinese Rule: Gender Politics, Reunification and Globalisation in Post-colonial Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Isabella Ng
December 18, 2020
This book explores gender dynamics in the indigenous villages (also known as walled villages) in post-handover Hong Kong. It looks at how Hong Kong’s reunification with China has impacted the walled villagers, in particular the women, and how the walled villages’ current gender dynamics in return ...
Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan
1st Edition
By Caroline Norma
June 30, 2020
This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan’s postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequality in contemporary Japan resulted from the policies put in place during this period, when there was instituted a “sexual contract” which provided ...
Women's Empowerment in Indonesia: A Poor Community in Jakarta
1st Edition
By Sri Wiyanti Eddyono
June 30, 2020
The idea that development projects in poor countries are most effective when they harness the agency of women is a well known theme. Most studies of women’s agency in such projects, however, focus on the role of non-governmental organizations in facilitating women’s agency. This book, on the other ...