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Rethinking Representations of Asian Women

Changes, Continuity, and Everyday Life

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  1. Noriko Ijichi
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  2. Atsufumi Kato
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  3. Ryoko Sakurada
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Pluralizing Images, the Sphere of Everyday Life, and the Agency of Relatedness: Representative Interventions for Women in Asia

    • Noriko Ijichi, Atsufumi Kato, Ryoko Sakurada
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Mother’s Identity among the Korean Diaspora Women of Japan

    • Jung-Eun Hong
    Pages 17-33

  4. On Encouraging Mothers of Multiple Children through the Order of the Mother Glorious in Mongolia

    • Turmunkh Odontuya
    Pages 35-49

  5. Imperial Japan and the Female Skin Divers (Chamsu) of Jeju Island, South Korea

    • Noriko Ijichi
    Pages 51-67

  6. Everyday Practices of Immigrant Vietnamese Women in Japan in Obtaining Ingredients for the Food of Their Homeland

    • Erina Seto-Suh
    Pages 69-85

  7. Divorced Newcomer Korean Women in Japan: The Decision to Remain in Japan and Lifestyle Adjustments

    • Dukin Lim
    Pages 87-104

  8. Crafting Religious Selves in a Transnational Space: Japanese Women Who Converted to Islam upon Marrying Pakistani Migrants

    • Masako Kudo
    Pages 105-121

  9. Working in the City and Rearing Children in the Hometown: Women-centered Relationships of a Patrilineal Chinese Family in Peninsular Malaysia

    • Ryoko Sakurada
    Pages 123-138

  10. A Concerned Mother of the Souls in the House: The Agency of Vietnamese Elderly Women Who Live Alone in Their Home Villages

    • Atsufumi Kato
    Pages 139-153

  11. A Regime Where the Woman’s Voice Is Heard: Guanluoyin as a Form of Abortion Ritual in Contemporary Taiwan

    • Grace Cheng-Ying Lin
    Pages 155-171

  12. The Role of Women’s Self-Help Networks in Anti-caste Discrimination Movements in Nepal

    • Kanako Nakagawa
    Pages 173-190

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 191-202
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Based on historic and ethnographic approaches, this volume examines how the ideological images of Asian women are produced, circulated, appropriated, and pluralized. Contributors analyze the interactions between the politicized formation of ideological representations and the everyday practices of women who resist and re-contextualize these images.

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"This book is a richly textured account of the lives of Asian women narrated as heterogeneous fragments. From revolutionary mothers in North Korea, Jeju female divers, Japanese wives of Pakistani men learning 'authentic' Islam, to low-caste women in Nepal, the chapters in the book illuminate the multiple different ways that the interplay between representations of women and women's practices may reinforce, slip past, or collide with each other." - Brenda S.A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore

"This book offers a breathtakingly panoramic view of increasingly transnational lives of women in today's Asia. It follows these women's extraordinary journeys in caring eyes and celebrates new sites of intimacy and bonds of solidarity that are created along the way. In doing so, it cautiously prepares an image of Asia that is more open and interconnected than in the past but which, nevertheless, is not oblivious to the histories of coerced movement and displacement." - Heonik Kwon, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK

About the authors

Jung-Eun Hong, Osaka University, Japan Turmunh Odontuya, Centre for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Japan Erina Seto-Suh, Kyoto University, Japan Dukin Lim, University of Tokyo, Japan Masako Kudo, Kyoto Women's University, Japan Grace Cheng-Ying Lin, John Abbott College, Canada Kanako Nakagawa, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan

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