1st Edition
Contestations Over Gender in Asia
Part I: Everyday Agency of Women in Asia
1. Introduction: The Everyday Agency of Women in Asia Lyn Parker and Laura Dales
2. ‘‘Northern Girls’’: Cultural Politics of Agency and South China’s Migrant Literature Wanning Sun
3. Left-behind and Vulnerable? Conceptualising Development and Older Women’s Agency in Rural China Tamara Jacka
4. Problematic Conjugations: Women’s Agency, Marriage and Domestic Violence in Indonesia Siti Aisyah and Lyn Parker
5. Ohitorisama, Singlehood and Agency in Japan Laura Dales
Part II: Masculinities in Asia
6. Masculinities in Asia: A Review Essay Chie Ikeya
7. A Collision of Masculinities: Men, Modernity and Urban Transportation in American-Colonial Manila Michael D. Pante
8. Obscenity, Moral Contagion and Masculinity: Hijras in Public Space in Colonial North India Jessica Hinchy
Biography
Lyn Parker is a Professor in Asian Studies, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. She is a social and cultural anthropologist who specializes in Indonesia.
Laura Dales is Lecturer in Asian Studies, School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. She researches contemporary Japanese society, with a particular focus on gender.
Chie Ikeya is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Her research concerns the social and cultural histories of modern Southeast Asia, with a focus on women and gender, race, colonialism, and nationalism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Burma (Myanmar).
