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)
The Micro-politics of Microcredit: Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Mohammad Jasim Uddin
January 03, 2018
Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries, with Bangladesh being one of the countries which has pioneered microcredit and implemented it most widely. This book, based on extensive original research, explores how ...
Trafficking Women in Korea: Filipina migrant entertainers
1st Edition
By Sallie Yea
January 03, 2018
Based on in-depth ethnographic work, this book presents a study of Filipinas trafficked to South Korea, focusing on women who entered South Korea as migrant entertainers and subsequently became deployed in exploitative work environments around US military bases there. It contributes to the ...
Women and Sharia Law in Northern Indonesia: Local Women's NGOs and the Reform of Islamic Law in Aceh
1st Edition
By Dina Afrianty
January 03, 2018
This book examines the life of women in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where Islamic law was introduced in 1999. It outlines how women have had to face the formalisation of conservative understandings of sharia law in regulations and new state institutions over the last decade or so, how they ...
Women and Climate Change in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Margaret Alston
December 21, 2017
Bangladesh is by no means a high emitter of carbon, but it is nevertheless one of the countries most critically affected. There is a significant risk of damage to lives and livelihoods due to climate change in the form of cyclones, flooding and storm surges, and slow-onset impacts such as droughts,...
Women and the Politics of Gender in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste: Between Heaven and Earth
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Niner
December 21, 2017
This book presents a wide-ranging overview of the position of women in Timor-Leste, 15 years after the country secured its independence. It considers the role of women in Timor-Leste’s history, explores their role in the present day economy and politics, and discusses their contribution to culture ...
Practicing Feminism in South Korea: The women’s movement against sexual violence
1st Edition
By Kyungja Jung
October 13, 2017
The Korean women’s movement, which is seen in both Western and non-Western countries as being exemplary in terms of women’s activism, experienced a dramatic change in its direction and strategy in the early 1990s. At the heart of the new approach was an increasing focus on sexual violence, which ...
China's Leftover Women: Late Marriage among Professional Women and its Consequences
1st Edition
By Sandy To
October 12, 2017
The term "sheng nu" ("leftover women") has been recently coined in China to describe the increasing number of women, especially highly educated professional women in their late twenties and over who have not married. This book explores this phenomenon, reporting on extensive research among "...
Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Germer, Vera Mackie, Ulrike Wöhr
October 12, 2017
Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation–states in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the present. References to gender relations are deeply ...
Growing up Female in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia
1st Edition
By Cynthia Joseph
October 12, 2017
This book provides a rich, detailed analysis of the experiences of young women growing up in post-colonial, rapidly modernizing Malaysia. It considers the impact of ethnicity, socio-economic status, and school experiences and achievement. It discusses the effects of Malaysia’s ethnic affirmative ...
Love and Marriage in Globalizing China
1st Edition
By Wang Pan
October 12, 2017
As China globalizes, the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese--foreign marriages have profound implications for China’s cultural identity. This book, based on extensive original research, outlines the different types of Chinese--foreign marriage, ...
Women's Empowerment in South Asia: NGO Interventions and Agency Building in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Pranab Panday
October 12, 2017
Economic development in the poorest countries often makes better progress when women become involved in, and take a lead in, development projects. Encouraging women’s involvement, however, is often a major difficulty in societies where traditionally women’s status has been inferior and where women ...
Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66
1st Edition
By Annie Pohlman
October 12, 2017
The Indonesian massacres of 1965-1966 claimed the lives of an estimated half a million men, women and children. Histories of this period of mass violence in Indonesia’s past have focused almost exclusively on top-level political and military actors, their roles in the violence, and their movements ...