Handbook on Gender in Asia

Edited by Shirlena Huang, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Department of Economy and Society, The University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Contents:INTRODUCTION1. Introduction: Gender in AsiaShirlena Huang and Kanchana N. RuwanpuraSECTION 1 – GENDER IN ASIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE2. Patriarchal Bargains and a Triple Bind: On Writing Geographies of Gender in IndiaAnindita Datta3. ‘You are (Hong Kong) Chinese! You Should Understand our Culture!’ Reflections of a Chinese Male Ethnographer on Researching Nepali Drug Users in Hong KongWai-man Tang4. ‘The Only Blond Girl in Manila’: Challenges and Opportunities as a White Western Young Woman Postgraduate Researching in AsiaMaddy ThompsonSECTION 2 – GENDER, AGEING AND HEALTH 5. Old-age Well-being in Developing Southeast Asia: Gendered Perspectives of Myanmar, Vietnam and ThailandBussarawan Teerawichitchainan and John Knodel6. Gender, Ageing, and Health in China Yi Yang7. Eldercare, Gender Relations and Migrant Labour in Japan: Approaching the Interplay of Informal and Formal CareRuri Ito and Mie Morikawa8. Parent Care in Transnational Families: Experiences of Taiwanese-Chinese Families in Australia and New ZealandLan-hung Nora Chiang and Elsie Seckyee Ho 9. Rural Thai Women’s Life Transformations through Partnering Western Men: Gendered Exchanges, Differential Ageing, and Rights Paul StathamSECTION 3 – GENDER AND LABOUR10. Labour Informality, Patriarchal Gender Regimes and Neoliberalism in TurkeyAyşe Arslan11. Gendering Work and Labor in the Agriculture Sector: A Focus on South AsiaCynthia M. Caron 12. Vulnerability and Resilience on the Streets: Interrogating Intersectionality amongst Southeast Asia’s Street VendorsSarah Turner, Ammar Adenwala and Celia Zuberec 13. Modestly Modern: Mapping the Pakistani Muslim Working WomanSara Shroff14. Gender and Domestic Work in IndiaLauren WilksSECTION 3 – GENDERED MIGRATIONS AND MOBILITIES15. Gendered Highly Skilled Migration in the Knowledge SectorParvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi16. Beyond the ‘Age’ Lens: Older Migrants’ Negotiation of Intersectional Identities over the Lifecourse Menusha De Silva17. From Factory Worker to Foreign Wife: Reading Migration and Development through a Gender PerspectiveHyunok Lee 18. Gendered Lifestyle Migration in Asia: Japanese Transnational Families in MalaysiaHiroki Igarashi19. Gender and Transnational Parenting: Extended Moral Communities of Co-Responsibility Among (Im)migrant Kodavathees Bittiandra Chand Somaiah20. Emotion, Gender and Migration in AsiaSallie YeaSECTION 5 – GENDER AT THE MARGINS21. Migrant Workers and Childcare at the Place of Destination: An Overview of Issues in the Mekong Region, South East AsiaKyoko Kusakabe22. Gender and Forced Migration: Kachin Internally Displaced People at the China-Myanmar BorderElaine Ho23. Exploring the Continuum: Violence Against Women and Security in Nepal’s Transition to PeaceSmita Ramnarain24. Silence and Invisibility: The Gender Dimensions of Women’s Activism in Higher Education in AsiaAsha L. AbeyasekeraIndex

'The Handbook is a great text for those studying gender in Asia, whether at graduate or undergraduate level. It is also a valuable introduction for graduate and undergraduate students in geography, sociology, anthropology, and global studies, and for policy-makers and women's rights practitioners who are interested in learning about gendered social life in Asia and the current gender scholarship on Asia.'