Women's Employment in Japan

Kaye Broadbent

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• 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 usin... Lees meer

Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia

Irma Riyani

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women. As well as describing and analysing their sexual relationshi... Lees meer

Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam

Jayne Werner

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• Examining gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing in particular on gender relations in both the family and state since the onset of economic re... Lees meer

Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia

Kate O'Shaughnessy

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• 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... Lees meer

Pious Girls

Annisa R Beta

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book examines young Muslim women's groups in Indonesia to show how a new type of young Muslim woman is emerging: pious and loyal to traditional M... Lees meer

Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-66

Annie Pohlman

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• The Indonesian massacres of 1965-1966 claimed the lives of an estimated half a million men, women and children. Histories of this period of mass viole... Lees meer

Islam, Women's Sexuality and Patriarchy in Indonesia

Irma Riyani

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book explores the intimate marital relationships of Indonesian Muslim married women. As well as describing and analysing their sexual relationshi... Lees meer

Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women's paid work and unpaid care ... Lees meer

The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia

Elizabeth Martyn

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratiza... Lees meer

China's Leftover Women

Sandy To

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• The term "sheng nu" ("leftover women") has been recently coined in China to describe the increasing number of women, especially highly educated profes... Lees meer

Women Writers in Postsocialist China

Kay Schaffer, Xianlin Song

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• Women's writing in postsocialist China has seen phenomenal growth in recent years, and this book examines this growth and its relationship to the tran... Lees meer

Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan

Catherine Burns

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of 'erotic... Lees meer

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation-states in its f... Lees meer

New Women in Colonial Korea

Hyaeweol Choi

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book provides the first English translation of some of the central archival material concerning the development of New Woman (sin yŏsŏng) in Kore... Lees meer

Young Muslim Women in India

Kabita Chakraborty

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book, based on extensive, original research, details the changing lives of youth living in slum communities ( bustees ) in Kolkata (formerly Calc... Lees meer

Practicing Feminism in South Korea

Kyungja Jung

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• The Korean women's movement, which is seen in both Western and non-Western countries as being exemplary in terms of women's activism, experienced a dr... Lees meer

Young Muslim Women in India

Kabita Chakraborty

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• Based on extensive, original research, this book portrays a different and an under-represented perspective of young Muslim girls in the bustees (shant... Lees meer

Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan

Laura Dales

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women's roles, and the term "feminism" is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonethel... Lees meer

Women's Employment in Japan

Kaye Broadbent

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• 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 usin... Lees meer

The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia

Elizabeth Martyn

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratiza... Lees meer

The Micro-politics of Microcredit

Mohammad Jasim Uddin

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries, with Bangladesh being one o... Lees meer

Women, Islam and Modernity

Linda Rae Bennett

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideologi... Lees meer

Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan

Caroline Norma

• Paperback | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan's postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequa... Lees meer

Women and Labour Organizing in Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | ASAA Women in Asia
• 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... Lees meer