With thirty-two original chapters reflecting cutting edge content throughout developed and developing Asia, Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Gende

Barbara N. Ramusack writes on South and Southeast Asia, surveying both the prescriptive roles and the lived experiences of women, as well as the construction of

This volume examines the nature of married women's participation in the economies of three East Asian countries—Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In addition to

This is the first book to survey the participation of women in sport and physical education across Asia, from the Middle East and South Asia through to the Asia

At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the par