Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
War, Violence and Women’s Agency in Pakistan: The Case of Swat
1st Edition
By Rehana Wagha
June 27, 2025
War, Violence and Women’s Agency in Pakistan investigates the prominent features of gender ideology in the Swat region, Pakistan and how they influence the norms and forms of women’s agency during conflict. After 9/11, the War on Terror brought a new wave of anarchy, extremism and violence to the ...
Women in Bengal: In Reality and Through Representations
1st Edition
Edited
By Sudarshana Sen
July 26, 2024
This book analyses the status of women in Bengal, India, by examining the versatile everyday living conditions of women, and how they are represented as individuals and as a category in the media. Contributors to the book start their discussion from the point that women in India have a varied ...
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows
1st Edition
By Sabina Faiz Rashid
April 24, 2024
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young women and their families living in the slums of Dhaka city and the injustices they face. The analysis focuses on two ...
Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Nazia Hussein
January 29, 2024
This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion are modes of power which inform hierarchies of social locations and people’s sense of belonging within these spaces and temporalities. It offers an alternative and innovative theoretical framework - new womanhood - for studying...
Female Chinese Bankers in the Asia Pacific: Gender, Mobility and Opportunity
1st Edition
By Wai-wan Vivien Chan
May 06, 2022
This book explores the simultaneous Asianisation and feminisation of mid-level management in the financial services sector in world and global cities in the Asia-Pacific. Chan draws on 50 in-depth interviews with ethnically Chinese female professionals working in middle or upper management ...
Social Transformation in Post-conflict Nepal: A Gender Perspective
1st Edition
By Punam Yadav
August 23, 2018
The concept of social transformation has been increasingly used to study significant political, socio-economic and cultural changes affected by individuals and groups. This book uses a novel approach from the gender perspective and from bottom up to analyse social transformation in Nepal, a country...
Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination
1st Edition
By Shailaja Paik
May 09, 2018
Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this book, Shailaja Paik focuses on the struggle of Dalit women in one arena - the realm of formal education – and examines a range of...
Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering discourse in Singapore and Malaysia
1st Edition
By Adeline Koh, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
January 24, 2018
Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of gender and sexuality in their societies. This is the first book to discuss a range of discourses around ...
New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics: The Centennial of the End of the Qing Dynasty
1st Edition
Edited
By Ya-chen Chen
May 25, 2017
The past century witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of modern Chinese women and gender politics. Whilst some revolutionary actions to rectify the feudalist patriarchy, such as foot-binding and polygyny were first seen in the late Qing period; the termination of the Qing Dynasty and ...
Women and Conflict in India
1st Edition
By Sanghamitra Choudhury
May 25, 2017
This book analyses the impact that prolonged socio-political conflict in India has had on political and social spaces for women. Focusing in particular on Assam in the North East of India, it looks at how the conflict can be restricting, and yet can also have the potential to expand these spaces ...
Gender and Family in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Siumi Maria Tam, Wai Ching Angela Wong, Danning Wang
April 21, 2016
The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed, modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women’s education levels and participation in ...
Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body
1st Edition
By Sonja van Wichelen
March 28, 2012
The political downfall of the Suharto administration in 1998 marked the end of the "New Order" in Indonesia, a period characterized by 32 years of authoritarian rule. It opened the way for democracy, but also for the proliferation of political Islam, which the New Order had discouraged or banned. ...