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)
Women and Politics in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Emma Dalton
May 25, 2017
This book looks at the gendering of the political system in Japan and the effects of that system on gender equality in national-level politics specifically and wider society more generally. It examines the approach taken by the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to issues of gender equality...
Women and Sex Work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears
1st Edition
By Larissa Sandy
May 25, 2017
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated. It outlines the background of the French colonial period, ...
The Korean Women's Movement and the State: Bargaining for Change
1st Edition
By Seung-kyung Kim, Kyounghee Kim
July 27, 2016
This book asks what strategies women’s movements can employ to induce law and policy changes at the national level that will assist women’s equality without sacrificing their feminist energy, movement cohesiveness and core feminist commitments. The book takes up this question in order to emphasize ...
Domestic Violence in Asia: Globalization, Gender and Islam in the Maldives
1st Edition
By Emma Fulu
January 20, 2016
This book explores changing patterns of domestic violence in Asia. Based on extensive original research in the Maldives, it argues that forces of globalisation, consumerism, Islamism and democratisation are changing the nature of domestic relations, with shifting ideas surrounding gender and Islam ...
Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam: Leaders, feminists, Sufis and pesantren selves
1st Edition
Edited
By Bianca J. Smith, Mark Woodward
January 20, 2016
The traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia, but their cultural significance has been underexplored. This book is the first to explore understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren and Sufi orders in Indonesia. By...
Women Writers in Postsocialist China
1st Edition
By Kay Schaffer, Xianlin Song
December 07, 2015
What does it mean to read from elsewhere? Women Writers in Postsocialist China introduces readers to a range and variety of contemporary Chinese women’s writing, which has seen phenomenal growth in recent years. The book addresses the different ways women’s issues are understood in China and the ...
New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook
1st Edition
By Hyaeweol Choi
September 20, 2013
This book provides the first English translation of some of the central archival material concerning the development of New Woman (sin yŏsŏng) in Korea during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. It includes selected writings of both women and men who put forward...
Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan
1st Edition
By Catherine Burns
September 10, 2012
This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'eroticised violence' in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable and the legal system which encourages homogeneity and conformity in decision-making...
Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves
1st Edition
By Sharyn Graham Davies
August 15, 2011
Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores the nature of gender diversity in Indonesia, and with the world’s largest Muslim ...
Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Laura Dales
April 04, 2011
In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women’s roles, and the term "feminism" is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonetheless, as this book shows, there is a flourishing feminist movement in contemporary Japan. The book investigates the features and effects ...
Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Barraclough, Elyssa Faison
April 04, 2011
Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying ...
Women, Islam and Everyday Life: Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Nina Nurmila
April 04, 2011
This book examines Islam and women’s everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy. It discusses the competing interpretations of the Qur’anic verses that are at the heart of Muslim controversies over polygamy, with some groups believing that Islam enshrines ...