...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...

...Bill Mihalopoulos Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium . Edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2014 . ix, 301 pp. ISBN: 9780824837150 (cloth, also available as e-book). Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor...

.... This wealth of material is more often recorded than interpreted, however. The book is arranged chronologically, a structure that has its own logic but leads to repetition and the dispersal of potentially coherent themes. While the subtitle suggests that the book will examine a plurality of gender discourses...

... teachings. 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 . By Martin...

...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...

...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...

...Keita Moore Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan . By Miri Nakamura . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2015 . xvi, 178 pp. Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation . By Jennifer Robertson . Oakland...

..., 98). Given the radicalness of this claim, much more research and reflection are required. Developing, but ultimately going beyond the period- and tradition-specific work of Timothy Barrett, Charles Benn, Russell Kirkland, and Franciscus Verellen, and advancing the gender-critical work of scholars...

... in contemporary approaches to family planning in East Asia? How can we understand the continued emphasis on normative gender roles and sexual behaviors in Asian countries? More transnational and comparative research along these lines will certainly be welcome in the future. Masculinity and the construction...

...Madeline Y. Hsu The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans . By Chien-Juh Gu . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , 2018 . vii, 195 pp. ISBN: 9780813586052 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Karma Lekshe Tsomo Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia . By Manduhai Buyandelger . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . 314 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $32.50 (paper); $7.00 to $30.00 (e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Ho Thanh Tam Familial Properties: Gender, State and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778 . By Nhung Tuyet Tran . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2019 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9780824874827 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Gender...

...Min Koo Choi Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea . By Sookja Cho . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2018 . xi, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780472130634 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Sookja Cho's...

...Chad M. Bauman Reference Bauman , Chad M. 2020 . Review of Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India, by Sonja Thomas . Journal of Asian Studies 79 ( 2 ): 527 – 529 . The review has been updated. The author apologizes...

...Michele M. Mason In this short review, I am unable to do justice to the plethora of curious, fascinating, and disturbing details that Koikari provides in her cogent and enlightening study. Gender , Culture , and Disaster in Post-3 . 11 Japan is infinitely readable without compromising...

...Benjamin Hegarty Abstract The regulation of public space is generative of new approaches to gender nonconformity. In 1968 in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a group of people who identified as wadam —a new term made by combining parts of Indonesian words denoting “femininity” and “masculinity...

...Mehreen Jamal The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender . By Shahla Haeri . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . xxiii, 257 pp. ISBN: 9781107554894 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022 2022 In The Unforgettable...

...Margherita Long Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima . By Aya Hirata Kimura . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . 224 pp. ISBN: 9780822361824 (cloth). Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan...

...Jennifer Altehenger Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940–1960 . By Xiaoping Cong . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . xvi, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781316602614 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 The performing arts—from...

...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia: Women Negotiating Informal Marriage, Divorce and Desire . By Maria Platt . London : Routledge , 2017 . xii, 158 pp. ISBN: 9780415662611 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Maria...