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)
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 ...
Sex, Love and Feminism in the Asia Pacific: A Cross-Cultural Study of Young People's Attitudes
1st Edition
By Chilla Bulbeck
July 21, 2010
‘Sex, love and feminism’ are three aspects of the rapidly changing gender relations that shape young people’s lives in the Asia Pacific region. Much has been written about rapidly changing countries in Asia, most recently China and India. With the global spread of capitalist production and ...
Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam
1st Edition
By Jayne Werner
June 30, 2010
This book examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources (including surveys, interviews, and responses to film screenings), Jayne Werner demonstrates that ...
Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Kathryn Robinson
June 30, 2010
This book explores the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, examining the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history, and demonstrating the different forms of social power this has afforded to women. It sets out the part played by women in ...
Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia: Divorce and Marriage Law
1st Edition
By Kate O'Shaughnessy
June 30, 2010
This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing in particular on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005 and its impact on women. Indonesia experienced high divorce rates in the 1950s and 1960s, followed by a remarkable decline. Already falling divorce rates were ...
The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia: Gender and Nation in a New Democracy
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Martyn
June 30, 2010
This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian ...
Young Women in Japan: Transitions to Adulthood
1st Edition
By Kaori H. Okano
June 30, 2010
Young Women in Japan: Transitions to adulthood received a CHOICE "Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2010" award from the American Library Association. This book examines young women in Japan, focusing in particular on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood and...
Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand
1st Edition
By Andrea Whittaker
August 14, 2009
This book discusses abortion in a non-Western, non-Christian context - in Thailand, where over 300,000 illegal abortions are performed each year by a variety of methods. The book, based on extensive original research in the field, examines a wide range of issues, including stories of the real-life ...
Women and Work in Indonesia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Ford, Lyn Parker
May 14, 2009
This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about work and economic activity, focusing on what women themselves see as their work, which includes not only paid employment, home life and child ...