Gendering Asia

Gendering Asia is a groundbreaking series addressing gender issues in Asia. It addresses the ways in which power and the constructions of gender, sex, sexuality and the body intersect with one another and pervade contemporary Asian societies.

 

The series invites discussion of how people shape their identities as females or males and, at the same time, become shaped by the very societies in which they live. It is concerned with the region as a whole in order to capture the wide range of understandings and practices that are found in East, Southeast and South Asian societies with respect to gendered roles and relations in various social, political, religious and economic contexts.

 

Gendering Asia is, then, a multidisciplinary series that explores theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues in the social sciences.

 

The book series developed out of and is closely associated with the Gendering Asia Network [www.nias.ku.dk/GenderingAsia/] but has a more international orientation than the network, which provides primarily Nordic scholars with a forum to interact and exchange research results and ideas.

 

The series editors are Wil Burghoorn of Gothenburg University, Sweden; Cecilia Milwertz of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen; and Helle Rydstrøm of Lund University, Sweden.

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Submitting to God

Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia

by Sylva Frisk

Gendering Asia # 6
Paperback - 2009, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 048 5, £16.99
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Gendered Inequalities in Asia

Configuring, Contesting and Recognizing Women and Men

edited by Helle Rydstrom

Gendering Asia # 5
Paperback - 2010, Recently Published
ISBN 978 87 7694 047 8, £18.99
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Lost Goddesses

The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History

by Trudy Jacobsen

Gendering Asia # 4
Paperback - 2008, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 001 0, £17.99
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Gender Politics in Asia

Women Manoeuvring with Dominant Gender Orders

edited by Wil Burghoorn, Kazuki Iwanaga, Cecilia Milwertz & Qi Wang

Gendering Asia # 3
Paperback - 2008, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 015 7, £14.99
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Making Fields of Merit

Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand

by Monica Lindberg Falk

Gendering Asia # 2
Hardback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 91114 65 6, £45.00
Paperback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 019 5, £16.99
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Working and Mothering in Asia

Images, Ideologies and Identities

edited by Theresa W. Devasahayam & Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Gendering Asia # 1
Paperback - 2007, Available
ISBN 978 87 7694 013 3, £16.99
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