Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
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...
Perverse Taiwan
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard Chiang, Yin Wang
August 14, 2018
Host of the first gay pride in the Sinophone world, Taiwan is well-known for its mushrooming of liberal attitudes towards non-normative genders and sexualities after the lifting of Martial Law in 1987. Perverse Taiwan is the first collection of its kind to contextualize that development from an ...
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore: Re-thinking global sexualities
1st Edition
By Shawna Tang
May 11, 2018
Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with local culture and how it relates to global ...
Unmarried Women in Japan: The drift into singlehood
1st Edition
By Akiko Yoshida
May 11, 2018
Yoshida addresses the common misconceptions of single, never-married women and aims to uncover the major social and cultural factors contributing to this phenomenon in Japan. Based on interviews with married and never-married women aged 25-46, she argues that the increasing rate of female ...
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...
Gender, Violence and the State in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy Barrow, Joy L. Chia
March 15, 2018
While gender-based violence occurs in all societies irrespective of the level of development or cultural setting, whether in conflict or peacetime, the challenges for legal responses to gender-based violence are particularly acute in Asia. This book addresses the lack of academic discourse on ...
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 ...
Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Genaro Castro-Vazquez
December 21, 2017
This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a group of Japanese mothers. It adopts a new approach in studying the decreasing fertility rates which are contributing to the ageing population in ...
Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Nishimura Junko
October 13, 2017
This book explores the employment of Japanese women born in the 1960s and 1970s who experienced childbirth and raised children in the 1990s and the early 2000s. During this period, the Japanese economy experienced a severe recession. It has affected the firm-specific internal labour market and on ...
New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics: The Centennial of the End of the Qing Dynasty
1st Edition
Edited
By Chen Ya-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 ...