Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

Domestic Violence in Asia explores changing patterns of domestic violence in Asia. Based on extensive original research in the Maldives, it argues that forces such as globalisation, consumerism, Islamism, and democratisation are transforming the nature of domestic relations, with shifting ideas surrounding gender and Islam being particularly significant. The book highlights that domestic violence has been relatively low in the...

This book looks at the gendering of the political system in Japan and the effects of that system on gender equality in national-level politics specifically and wider society more generally. It examines the approach taken by the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to issues of gender equality in Japan, and the repercussions of that approach on women’s political experiences and...

This book examines the life of women in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where Islamic law was introduced in 1999. It outlines how women have faced the formalisation of conservative understandings of sharia law in regulations and new state institutions over the last decade or so, and how they have responded to this by forming non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that have...