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...Joan Judge Gender and Education in China: Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century . By Paul J. Bailey . New York : Routledge , 2006 . x , 246 pp. $160.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Describing...

...Joanna Kirkpatrick Gender Transformation, Power and Resistance among Women in Sri Lanka: Fish Don't Talk About the Water . By Carla Risseeuw . New Delhi : Manohar , 1991 . xvi, 399 pp. Rs. 350. Arguing with the Crocodile: Gender and Class in Bangladesh . By Sarah C. White...

...Brooke Schedneck The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma . By Ward Keeler . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2017 . xvi, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780824865948 (cloth). Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden Histories of Nuns in Modern Thai Buddhism...

...Michelle Maskiell Narrowing the Gender Gap . By Geeta Somjee . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1989 . xvi, 155 pp. $45.00. Daughters of Independence: Gender, Caste and Class in India . Joanna Liddle and Rama Joshi . New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press...

...Rachel Leow Abstract Gail Hershatter' s presidential address at the March 2012 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) encouraged historians to regard gender as a tool with which one navigates a messy, fragmented historical terrain, rather than an enclosed house in which one...

... ): 1323 –47 . In summary, Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium , Modern Girls on the Go , and Women Adrift show how far questions pertaining to gender have evolved over time. The work of pioneering feminists such as Sharon Sievers focused on the fact that political authority was truly...

...Takeshi Watanabe Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the “Tale of Genji” . By Edith Sarra . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2020 . xiii, 341 pp. ISBN: 9780674244436 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Theoretical developments...

...Peng Hai The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China . By Guangtian Ha . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . xiv, 293 pp. ISBN: 9780231552486 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Guangtian Ha's The Sound of Salvation offers...

...Yupeng Jiao Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942–1953 . By Xiaofei Kang . New York : Oxford University Press , 2023 . xix, 288 pp. ISBN: 9780197654477 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Anyone who grew up...

...Nancy Rosenberger Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace . By Dorinne K. Kondo . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1989 . xiii , 346 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 157...

...Ackbar Abbas Gender and Culture in Literature and Film East and West: Issues of Perception and Interpretation . Edited by Nataya Masavisut and George Simson , and Larry E. Smith . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1994 . xxxv, 197 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Michelle Maskiell Gender and Political Economy: Explorations of South Asian Systems . Edited by Alice W. Clark . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . viii, 375 pp. Where Women Are Leaders: The SEWA Movement in India . By Kalima Rose . London : Zed Books Ltd. 286 pp...

...Chithra KarunaKaran Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Indian Women . By Madhu Kishwar . New York : Oxford University Press , 1999 . 290 pp. Rs. 765.00, $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 293 he...

...Seung-Kyung Kim Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea . By Laura C. Nelson . New York : Columbia University Press , 2000 . xviii , 224 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 278...

...Sonja Arntzen Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan . By Terry Kawashima . Harvard East Asian Monographs. Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2001 . 325 pp. $39.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002...

...Paul S. Ropp Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History . Edited by Susan Mann and Yu-Yin Cheng . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2001 . xiii , 310 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr Acting Like a Woman in Modern Japan: Theater, Gender, and Nationalism . By Ayako Kano . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2001 . xi, 322 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1378 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Daniel H. Bays Pioneer Chinese Christian Women: Gender, Christianity, and Social Mobility . Edited by Jessie G. Lutz . Bethlehem, PA : Lehigh University Press , 2010 . 444 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This is a very useful...

...Maki Umemura Americanizing Japanese Firms: The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy and Volunteerism in American Communities . By Yukio Yotsumoto . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2010 . 146 pp. $32.00 (paper). Going Global: Culture, Gender, and Authority...

...William Harman From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture . Edited by Lindsey Harlan and Paul B. Courtright . New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xiii, 250 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...