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...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...

...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...

... as a means to change the consciousness and sexual mores of the general population (Burns and Brooks, p. 59). Hastings's analysis is silent on this issue. This is also a book with an agenda, which aims to push legal and gender history in new directions (Burns and Brooks, p. 7). Editors Burns and Brooks...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... and credibility, and weave it into substantive historical analyses of Indian society during the Mughal period. ROBERT G. VARADY University of Arizona Forging Identities: Gender, Communities and the State. Edited by ZOYA HASAN. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1994. xxiv, 264 pp. Rs. 250. $19.95 (paper). The purpose...

... of social organization shape innovation and technological choices and are in turn transformed by them. MICHAEL ADAS Rutgers University Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia. By SUSANNE THORBEK. London and New Jersey: Zed Books Ltd., 1994. 223 pp. $55-00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). This book is a comparative...

...Sara Dickey Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India . By Karin Kapadia . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1995 . xv, 269 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 528 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Siva and Her...

...Nancy Abelmann Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity . By Laurel Kendall . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xiii, 259 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 506 THE JOURNAL...

...Philippa Levine Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel . By Inderpal Grewal . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1996 . x, 286 pp. $45.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

...: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing. Edited by PAUL G O R D O N SCHALOW and J A N E T W A L K E R . Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1996. xx, 511 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Timely, stimulating, highly readable any and all of these apply in ample measure to The Woman's Hand...

...Susan S. Wadley A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia . By Bina Agarwal . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1994 . xxii, 570 pp. $79.95(cloth); $35.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 243...

... Representations of the ‘New Woman’ by May Fourth Writers.” In Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism , edited by E Tani . Barlow. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Chatterjee Partha . 1993 . The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories . Princeton...

...David Baldwin Gender and the Sexes in the Indonesian Archipelago . Edited by Laura Summers and William D. Wilder . Special issue of Indonesia Circle , No. 67 (November 1995 ). 195 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1088 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Deborah Winslow Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural India . By Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery . Contemporary Asia Series, number 3. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1997 . xvi, 278 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Christine R. Yano The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture; Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures . Edited by D. P. Martinez . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1998 . xi, 212 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 848 THE JOURNAL...

... to any reader in search of an engaging collection of narrative tales. J O H N E. C O R T Denison University Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. Edited by PATRICIA JEFFERY and A M R I T A BASU. New York: Routledge, 1998. xi, 296 pp. $19.95 (paper). This volume...

... . Singapore : Oxford University Press . Fishel Thamora. 1996 . “Mothers, Teachers and Hua Khanaen : Gender and the Culture of Local Politics in Thailand.” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies, Theme V: Women, Gender and Development in Thai Society . Chiang Mai , 14 – 17...