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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1333–1335.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Sally J. Sutherland Goldman Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahābhārata . By Arti Dhand . Albany : State University of New York Press. 2007 . ix , 254 pp. $80.00 (cloth). Despite these concerns...
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Published: 01 November 2008
Figure 5. The modern woman. Source: Flyer for the movie Modern Woman , 1934. More
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1146–1147.
Published: 01 November 2014
... concubines with leverage” (p. 150). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture . By Gaiutra Bahadur . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 . xxi, 273 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper); $18.00 (ebook). ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 312–313.
Published: 01 February 1964
...Herschel Webb The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings . By Ihara Saikaku . Edited and translated by Ivan Morris . UNESCO Collection of Representative Literary Works, xxi , 403 . Appendices, Illustrations. $5.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 312...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1106–1108.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Chün-fang Yü Escape from Blood Pond Hell: The Tales of Mulian and Woman Huang . Translated and introduced by Beata Grant and Wilt L. Idema . Seattle; London : University of Washington Press , 2011 . x, 278 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 3–26.
Published: 01 February 2021
... that the modern study of caste naturalized the control of female sexuality through the uncritical use of the concept of endogamy, which Ambedkar diagnosed as the irresolvable problem of the “Surplus Woman” in 1917. The essay reflects on the long life of endogamy and the enduring problem of nonconjugal sexuality...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 519–521.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Charles Keyes In 1959, Boonlua, then forty-eight years old, married Dr. Chom Debyasuvarn, an epidemiologist whose first wife had died. Even then she did not, however, assume a traditional role for a Thai woman but continued, with her husband's support, to take an active role in public life...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 208–211.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Aisha Khan Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture . By Gaiutra Bahadur . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . xxi, 274 pp. ISBN: 9781849042772 (cloth). Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India . By Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan . Bloomington : Indiana...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 6 (4): 431–432.
Published: 01 August 1947
.... It is no small "measure of a man," in this case, a most determined woman, to have had an active part, with her husband, in all this turbulence. The entire book is filled with instances, first, of familial devotion, and second, of a fierce patriotism. This patriotism strives to create good new ways...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 5 (3): 342–343.
Published: 01 May 1946
... iwrking woman. BY IDA PRUITT, from the story told her by NING T"ai-t'ai. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. viii, 249 p. $2.75. Miss Pruitt has produced an interesting book. The subject of the book is Ning Lao-t'ai-t'ai, "Old Mistress," who met with the author at breakfast three times a week to talk...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (1): 67–101.
Published: 01 February 2005
... of Suicide .” Nannü 3 1 : 22 – 46 . Chan Ching-Kiu Stephen . 1993 . “The Language of Despair: Ideological Representations of the ‘New Woman’ by May Fourth Writers.“ In Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism , ed. Barlow Tani E. . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 1025–1027.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Ronald P. Loftus Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan . By William Johnston . New York : Columbia University Press , 2004 . viii, 272 pp. $29.50 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S J A P A N...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 763–791.
Published: 01 November 2006
... . Introd. to and trans. of Around the World in Eighty Days , by Jules Verne. Oxford : Oxford University Press . Hongxiang Chen 1986 . Pref. to Shouci shi shigao {Draft Poems of Shouci Studio} , by Shan Shili. Changsha, China : Hunan wenyi chubanshe . Chow Rey . 1991 . Woman...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 747–749.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Taylor M. Easum Woman between Two Kingdoms: Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand . By Leslie Castro-Woodhouse . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2021 . x, 188 pp. ISBN: 9781501755507 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 In the absence of formal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 715–717.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Jill Barnum Gidmark The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam . By Dana Sachs . Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books , 2000 . 348 pp. $22.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 715 Despite...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1378–1380.
Published: 01 November 2002
...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...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 637–640.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Kathleen S. Uno In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist . By Hiratsuka Raichō . Translated by Teruko Craig . New York : Columbia University Press , 2005 . xiii , 335 pp. $38.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 676–678.
Published: 01 November 2023
... was seen as destined for enlightened leadership within the family. She received an unprecedentedly high level of religious education for a woman, but was excluded from the basic literacy, or rikné , training, as it was considered unnecessary for her future role at Mindröling (45–47). She was ordained...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1489–1491.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Nisha Kommattam The Enigma of the Kerala Woman . Edited by Swapna Mukhopadhyay . New Delhi : Social Science Press , 2007 . xii , 189 pp. $70.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 The second part of the book consists of seven case...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1277–1308.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Figure 5. The modern woman. Source: Flyer for the movie Modern Woman , 1934. ...
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