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)
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 ...
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...