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Joanna Elfving-Hwang
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
This book discusses perceptions of ‘femininity’ in contemporary South Korea and the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women’s fiction of the 1990s challenges the enduring assoc... |
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Discovering a 'New' Land
Lorraine Sterry
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume complements other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women by locating and creating a ‘space’ for Japan which is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing. It examines the narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, when Japan was first opened to the West, and became a highly desirable travel destination for decades thereafter.
Many women travelled, and although most left no record of their journeys, enough did to form a discrete body of literature spanning more than fifty years, from the end of the feudal Tokugawa era to th... |
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Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies
Emiko Ochiai
KYOTO UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Asia's New Mothers, through a focus on childcare, offers a comparative regional analysis unique in English-language sources of changing gender roles in East and Southeast Asia.
Taking into consideration the historical and cultural differences and similarities among the societies in the region, the authors employ in-depth researches of people’s everyday experiences. The resea... |
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Adapting to Change of Culture and Status
Ruth Martin
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Based on research over a six-year period into three age groups of women, this important new study offers in-depth analysis for the first time of the experience of expatriate Japanese wives living temporarily in the United Kingdom. It focuses on the roles of the ‘housewife’ in the context of the changing status of women in contemporary Japan.
While other research has concentrated on expatriate Japanese male professionals, this book examines what a husband’s overseas work transfer means to his wife. It explores how wives’ roles are modified... |
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Marfua Tokhtakhodzhaeva
TASHKENT UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) As well as being a valuable and insightful study into the history, development and tenets of Islam, with particular reference to life in Uzbekistan, this study, which draws on a wide personal network and extensive field research, is also in part a personal quest in support of women’s position and aspirations in the modern world.
In 1991, following the collapse of the USSR, Uzbekistan reappeared on the world map as an independent state within the Russian Federation, choosing the path of secular development and the creation of ... |
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Takie Lebra
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I
As one of Japan’s leading post-war anthropologists, the writings of Takie Lebra have had a profound impact on Western scholarship, understanding and appreciation of the structures and workings of Japa... |
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EDITED BY Hiroko Tomida and Gordon Daniels
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
KEY FEATURE(S) For the first time, many of the world’s leading scholars in the field of Japanese women’s history met in Edinburgh in 2003 and presented papers addressing the themes of ‘Pioneering Women in Japan’ and ‘General Issues in Japanese Women’s History’. This volume, with an Introduction by Dr Gordon Daniels and Dr Hiroko Tomida, is the outcome.
Based on the highly successful conference on the same theme held at Edinburgh University in 2003, the volume is divided into two themes: ‘Pioneering Women in Japan’ and ‘General Issues in Japanese Wom... |
