Table of Contents
Preface; Part I: Introduction and Overviews of Women in Asia; Chapter 1: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity: A Thematic Perspective on Women of Asia; Chapter 2: Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment, and the Sustainable Development Agenda in Asia; Chapter 3: Gendering Aid and Development Policy: Official Understanding of Gender Issues in Foreign Aid Programs in Asia; Part II: East Asia; Chapter 4: Globalization and Gender Equity in China; Chapter 5: China’s "State Feminism" in Context: The All-China Women’s Federation From Inception to Current Challenges; Chapter 6: Gender Equality and the Limits of Law in Securing Social Change in Hong Kong; Chapter 7: Women’s Experiences of Balancing Work and Family in South Korea: Continuity and Change; Chapter 8: Gender Equality in the Japanese Workplace: What Has Changed Since 1985?; Chapter 9: Addressing Women’s Health through Economic Opportunity: Lessons from Women Engaged in Sex Work in Mongolia; Part III: Southeast Asia; Chapter 10: Women, Globalization, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia; Chapter 11: Adapting Human Rights: Gender-Based Violence and Law in Indonesia; Chapter 12: Experiences of Financial Vulnerability and Empowerment among Women who were Trafficked in the Philippines; Chapter 13: Women as Natural Caregivers? Migration, Healthcare Workers, and Eldercare in Singapore; Chapter 14: Elected Women Politicians in Singapore’s Parliament: An Analysis of Socio-Demographic Profile; Chapter 15: Globalization and Increased Informalization of Labor: Women in the Informal Economy in Malaysia; Chapter 16: Women Politicians in Cambodia: Resisting and Negotiating Power in a Newly "Implemented" Democracy; Chapter 17: Freedom to Choose? Marriage and Professional Work among Urban Middle-Class Women in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam; Chapter 18: Entrepreneurial Women in Lao PDR; Chapter 19: Persisting Inequality, Rural Transformation, and Gender Relations in the Northeast of Thailand; Chapter 20: Challenging Gender Inequalities through Education and Activism: Exploring the Work of Women's Organizations in Myanmar's Transition; Part IV: South Asia; Chapter 21: Young Women’s Situation and Patriarchal Bargains: The Story of a Son-Less Family in Rural Bangladesh; Chapter 22: Livelihoods, Households, and Womanhood in Nepal; Chapter 23: Negotiating Gendered Violence in the Public Spaces of Indian Cities: Globalization and Urbanization in Contemporary India; Chapter 24: The Promises and Pitfalls of Microfinance in Pakistani Women’s Lives; Chapter 25: Afghan Women: The Politics of Empowerment in the Post-2001 Era; Part V: Eurasia and Central Asia; Chapter 26: Women in Azerbaijan: Decades of Change and Challenges; Chapter 27: Female Religious Leaders in Uzbekistan: Recalibrating Desires and Effecting Social Change; Chapter 28: Project Kelin: Marriage, Women, and Re-Traditionalization in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan; Chapter 29: "Women Move the Cradle with One Hand and with the Other, the World!" Methodological Reflections on "The Woman Question" in Tajikistan; Chapter 30: Tradition, Islam, and the State: International Organizations and the Prevention of Violence against Women in Tajikistan; Chapter 31: Rural Women’s Encounters with Economic Development in Kyrgyzstan; Chapter 32: Women as Change Agents: Gender in Post-Soviet Central Asia; Notes on Contributors