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North Korea is in the throes of economic and social, if not political, transition. This book examines the complex relationship between gender roles and economic and social changes in North Korea.

This book, based on extensive original research, examines the practice of kendo by Japanese women in a university sport setting.

The reality for marginalized Muslim girls in Kolkata is far more complex than the one that is often constructed during discussions that view the lives of Muslim girls through a lens of repression and poverty within the patriarchal Islamic community. This book portrays a different perspective of young Muslim girls in the shanty towns of Kolkata.

Examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986. This book demonstrates that despite the formal institution of public gender equality in Vietnam, in practice women do not hold a great deal of power, continuing to defer to men in the family and community.

Examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young Indonesian women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health. This book demonstrates that Islam is neither alone in trying to control female sexuality, nor entirely successful in doing so.

"Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated"--

"Explores changing patterns of domestic violence in Asia. Based on extensive original research in the Maldives, it argues that forces of globalisation, consumerism, Islamism and democratisation are changing the nature of domestic relations, with shifting ideas surrounding gender and Islam being particularly significant"--

Examines Islam and women's everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy. This book discusses the competing interpretations of the Qur'anic verses that are at the centre of Muslim controversies over polygamy. It provides an empirically-based account of women's lived experiences in polygamous marriages.

'Sex, love and feminism' are three aspects of the rapidly changing gender relations that shape young people's lives in the Asia Pacific region. This book discusses young people's attitudes to controversial gender issues such as role reversal, sharing housework, abortion rights, same sex sexual relations, nudity and pornography in this region.

Examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing in particular on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005 and its impact on women. Drawing on a wide selection of primary sources, including court records, legal codes, newspaper reports, fiction, interviews and case studies, this book provides a historical account of this period.

Examines women in Japan and focuses on their transitions to adulthood, their conceptions of adulthood, and relations with Japanese society. This book considers various aspects of the transition to adulthood including employment, marriage, divorce, childbirth and custody. It shows how the role of young women changed over the course of the 1990s.

Investigates the features and effects of feminism in contemporary Japan, in non-government women's groups, government-run women's centres and the individual activities of feminists. This book argues that the work of individual activists and women's organisations in Japan promotes real change to gender roles and expectations among Japanese women.

Explores the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, examining the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed, and demonstrating the different forms of social power this has afforded to women. This book also addresses the relationship between Islam and women in Indonesia.