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1. Gender Diversity in Indonesia

   Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves

   By Sharyn Graham Davies

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores the nature of gender diversity in Indonesia, and with the world’s largest Muslim...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
2. Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan

   By Laura Dales

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women’s roles, and the term "feminism" is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonetheless, as this book shows, there is a flourishing feminist movement in contemporary Japan. The book investigates the features and effects...

   Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
3. Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan

   Sexing Class

   Edited by Ruth Barraclough, Elyssa Faison

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   Bringing together for the first time sexual and industrial labour as the means to understand gender, work and class in modern Japan and Korea, this book shows that a key feature of the industrialisation of these countries was the associated development of a modern sex labour industry. Tying...

   Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
4. Women, Islam and Everyday Life

   Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia

   By Nina Nurmila

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   This book examines Islam and women’s everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy. It discusses the competing interpretations of the Qur’anic verses that are at the heart of Muslim controversies over polygamy, with some groups believing that Islam enshrines...

   Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Women's Movement in Postcolonial Indonesia

   Gender and Nation in a New Democracy

   By Elizabeth Martyn

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
6. Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia

   Divorce and Marriage Law

   By Kate O'Shaughnessy

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   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 on women. Indonesia experienced high divorce rates in the 1950s and 1960s, followed by a remarkable decline. Already falling divorce rates were...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
7. Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia

   By Kathryn Robinson

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   This book explores the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, examining the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history, and demonstrating the different forms of social power this has afforded to women. It sets out the part played by women in...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
8. Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam

   By Jayne Werner

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   This book examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources (including surveys, interviews, and responses to film screenings), Jayne Werner demonstrates that...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
9. Young Women in Japan

   Transitions to Adulthood

   By Kaori H. Okano

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   This book examines young women in Japan, focusing in particular on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood and relations with Japanese society more generally. Drawing on detailed primary research including a year-long observation of high schools and subsequent interviews over...

   Published June 29th 2010 by Routledge
10. Sex, Love and Feminism in the Asia Pacific

    A Cross-Cultural Study of Young People's Attitudes

    By Chilla Bulbeck

    Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

    ‘Sex, love and feminism’ are three aspects of the rapidly changing gender relations that shape young people’s lives in the Asia Pacific region. Much has been written about rapidly changing countries in Asia, most recently China and India. With the global spread of capitalist production and...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge