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)
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 ...
Women's Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-time Workers
1st Edition
By Kaye Broadbent
May 14, 2009
The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are ...
Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism
1st Edition
Edited
By Kaye Broadbent, Michele Ford
April 03, 2009
This book investigates the role of women and labour activism in Asia, demonstrating that women have been active in union and non union based campaigns throughout the region. Although focusing primarily on women, the contributions to this book address issues that affect all workers. Chapters on ...
Women, Islam and Modernity: Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia
1st Edition
By Linda Rae Bennett
July 30, 2007
In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original ...
Violence Against Women in Asian Societies: Gender Inequality and Technologies of Violence
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Rae Bennett, Lenore Manderson
April 04, 2003
Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide. While much has been written about it in industrialized societies, there has been relatively little attention given to such violence in Asian societies. This book addresses the ...