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)
Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia: Women Negotiating Informal Marriage, Divorce and Desire
1st Edition
By Maria Platt
December 12, 2019
Marriage is central to Indonesia’s social fabric and critical in defining socially legitimate relationships. This book offers a rich anthropological account of Muslim Indonesian women’s experiences of courtship, love, marital discord and separation, polygamy, divorce and remarriage. By applying a ...
Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Marian Baird, Michele Ford, Elizabeth Hill
January 03, 2019
This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women’s paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Each country-focused chapter examines the formal and informal ways in which work and care are managed, ...
Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia: A History of Desire, Duty, and Debt
1st Edition
By Trude Jacobsen
April 20, 2018
This book brings an important new perspective to the study of sex trafficking by considering the different types of social contracts which existed in the past that had sexual labour or activity as an inherent component. It outlines the nature of these social institutions – marriage, temporary ...
Young Muslim Women in India: Bollywood, Identity and Changing Youth Culture
1st Edition
By Kabita Chakraborty
January 12, 2018
This book, based on extensive, original research, details the changing lives of youth living in slum communities (bustees) in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Using young people’s own photos, art and narratives, the book explores how Muslim girls and young women are contributing to, and impacted by, ...
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 ...