Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
Attachment, Aspiration, and Inequality in Domestic Labour in India: The Bonds of Service
1st Edition
By Anindita Chatterjee
February 20, 2026
This novel volume presents an ethnography of the gendered dynamics of informal labour relations in three cosmopolitan cities in India—Kolkata, Delhi, and Noida—in order to analyse women’s agency and identity formation in the domestic labour sphere in India. Structured around an extensive set of ...
Women in Bengal: In Reality and Through Representations
1st Edition
Edited
By Sudarshana Sen
December 26, 2025
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
September 29, 2025
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gender, Development, and the State in India
1st Edition
By Carole Spary
September 30, 2020
This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state policy on gender and development in India in the post-1990 period through three key organising concepts of institutions, discourse, and agency. The book ...
Gender, Governance and Empowerment in India
1st Edition
By Sreevidya Kalaramadam
December 12, 2019
Since the mid-1980s, the presence of women in governance has become a major marker of successful democracy in global and national discourses on the democratization of society. A diverse set of nation-states have legislatively mandated gender quotas to ensure the presence of elected women ...
HIV/AIDS in India: Voices from the Margins
1st Edition
By Sunita Manian
December 12, 2019
India ranks third in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS globally. The country has high levels of poverty and inequality, poor healthcare infrastructure, especially away from the metropolitan areas, and a legacy of colonialism that bequeathed laws criminalizing non-heteronormative sexualities...
Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence
1st Edition
By Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
December 12, 2019
Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. While the political and communal aspects of the Partition have received some attention, its enormous personal and psychological costs have been mostly ...
Sexuality and Public Space in India: Reading the Visible
1st Edition
By Carmel Christy
December 12, 2019
The topic of sexuality and gender within the South Asian context is timely and widely discussed across a variety of academic disciplines. Since the end of the last century, there have been debates in the cultural sphere in India on issues concerning Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender people’s rights,...
Sexuality in a Changing China: Young Women, Sex and Intimate Relations in the Reform Period
1st Edition
By Nicole Zarafonetis
June 04, 2019
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: Zarafonetis, Nicole, author.Title: Sexuality in a changing China : young women, sex and intimate relations in the reform period / Nicole Zarafonetis.Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge research on gender in Asia ...