Books in the Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series series

Argues that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment. This book focuses on the case of Nepal.

Focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analyzing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics, and research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka. This book examines the ways of meaning-making for the political, ideological and ethical purposes of promoting social change.

Examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India's transnational call center industry. This book offers an analysis of role of women's participation in the global labor market. It is suitable for academics working on South Asia, gender and labor studies.

Arguing that in contemporary Indonesia, Muslim politics have worked with democratic principles, this book illustrates that debates on Islamic issues often relate to other central issues of politics and identity such as class dynamics, shifting ideas of femininity and masculinity, global consumerism and political power relations.

This book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia. Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan's past and present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the growing popularity of cross-dressing performance.

The book brings together scholars, practitioners and human rights advocates to examine the intersections between gender, violence and the state in Asia. With diverse backgrounds, the contributors bridge the divide between policy, laws and practice to offer a unique insight into both theoretical and practical responses to gender-based violence.

Dalit Women's Education in Modern India is a social and cultural history that challenges the triumphant narrative of modern secular education to analyse the constellation of social, economic, political and historical circumstances that both opened and closed opportunities to many Dalits. By focusing on marginalised Dalit women in modern Maharashtra, who have rarely been at the centre of systematic historical enquiry, Shailaja Paik breathes life into their ideas, expectations, potentials, fears and frustrations. Addressing two major blind spots in the historiography of India and of the women¿s movement, she historicises Dalit women¿s experiences and constructs them as historical agents.

This book enriches and reorients our understanding of postcolonial queer East Asia. Challenging a heteronormative understanding of Taiwan¿s past and present, it provides fresh critical analyses of a range of topics from queer criminality and literature in the 1950s and 1960s to the growing popularity of cross-dressing performance and tongzhi (gay and lesbian) cinema on the cusp of a new millennium. Together, the contributions provide a detailed account of the rise and transformations of queer cultures in post-World War II Taiwan.

Castro-Vazquez adopts a new approach in studying the decreasing fertility rates contributing to ageing population in modern Japan. Based on the accounts of 57 married Japanese women, he employs symbolic interactionism as a framework to examine the various factors affecting decision-making on childbirth. With strong contextual information as the foundation, he offers fresh insight as to how Japanese women today perceive the idea of childbirth in a modernized society which will assist the readers in understanding the factors causing Japan¿s ageing population.

The book brings together scholars, legal practitioners and human rights advocates to examine the intersections between gender, violence and the state in Asian contexts. With diverse backgrounds, the contributors to this book bridge the divide between policy, laws and practice to offer a unique insight into both theoretical and practical responses to how gender-based violence is articulated and understood within communities and state institutions in Asian countries.

The proposed book explores the employment patterns of women born in the 1960s and the 1970s by presenting a comprehensive picture of the employment patterns of Japanese women who raised or are raising their children in the 1990s and the 2000s. Many women born in the 1960s and the 1970s raised their children after the 1990s when the Japanese economy experienced a serious economic downturn. On the other hand, gender equality policy and childcare leave systems were enhanced under pressure to cope with low fertility during this period. This book explores how these economic and policy circumstances, mediated by employment practices in Japanese firms and family systems, affect mothers¿ employment in Japan.

This book traces the radical changes in gender politics in China, and the way in which the lives, roles and status of Chinese women have been transformed over the last one hundred years. In doing so, it highlights three distinctive areas of development for modern Chinese women and gender politics: first, women¿s equal rights, freedom, careers, and images about their modernized femininity; second, Chinese women¿s overseas experiences and accomplishments; and third, advances in Chinese gender politics of non-heterosexuality and same-sex concerns.

This book examines gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization has brought to the region, and structural restrictions that women in East Asian societies continue to face in their daily lives. Across three sections, the contributors to this volume focus on marriage and motherhood, religion and family, and migration.

In post-independence India, a stated governmental ideal of 'Education For All' has been promoted. This book examines the extent to which this has been realised, examining in particular the ways in which formal institutions of education in India discriminate against a disadvantaged group - Dalit, or untouchable, women.