Unmarried Women in Japan

Akiko Yoshida

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book aims to answer the question of why many women remain single in Japan, based on life history interview research conducted in Japan. It argues... Lees meer

Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan

Genaro Castro-Vázquez

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a g... Lees meer

Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

Adeline Koh, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in t... Lees meer

New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia | nr. 7
• The past century witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of modern Chinese women and gender politics. Whilst some revolutionary actions to rectify the... Lees meer

Dalit Women's Education in Modern India

Shailaja Paik

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteen... Lees meer

Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh

Nazia Hussein

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion are modes of power which inform hierarchies of social locations and people's s... Lees meer

Feminist Research Methodology

Maithree Wickramasinghe

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and polit... Lees meer

Gender and Family in East Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asia... Lees meer

Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh

Nazia Hussein

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion inform hierarchies of social locations and people's sense of belonging within ... Lees meer

Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia

Sonja Van Wichelen

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• 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 aut... Lees meer

Social Transformation in Post-conflict Nepal

Punam Yadav

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• The concept of social transformation has been increasingly used to study significant political, socio-economic and cultural changes affected by indivi... Lees meer

Female Chinese Bankers in the Asia Pacific

Wai-Wan Vivien Chan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book explores the simultaneous Asianisation and feminisation of mid-level management in the financial services sector in world and global cities ... Lees meer

Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan

Nishimura Junko

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• 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 ea... Lees meer

Women, Identity and India's Call Centre Industry

J K Tina Basi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India'... Lees meer

Sexuality and Public Space in India

Carmel Christy

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• The topic of sexuality and gender within the South Asian context is timely and widely discussed across a variety of academic disciplines. Since the en... Lees meer

Perverse Taiwan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia. Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan's past and p... Lees meer

Motherhood and Work in Contemporary Japan

Nishimura Junko

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• 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 ea... Lees meer

HIV/AIDS in India

Sunita Manian

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• India ranks third in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS globally. The country has high levels of poverty and inequality, poor healthcare infras... Lees meer

Women and Conflict in India

Sanghamitra Choudhury

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book analyses the impact that prolonged socio-political conflict in India has had on political and social spaces for women. Focusing in particula... Lees meer

Gender, Violence and the State in Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• While gender-based violence occurs in all societies irrespective of the level of development or cultural setting, whether in conflict or peacetime, th... Lees meer

Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. Whil... Lees meer

Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan

Genaro Castro-Vázquez

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a g... Lees meer

Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore

Shawna Tang

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• 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 depen... Lees meer

Sex Trafficking in South Asia

Mary Crawford

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia
• This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of g... Lees meer