-
Fragmented local normative orders, unresolved localizations, and the contesting of gender equality norms in Turkey Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Hüsrev Tabak,Seven Erdoğan,Muharrem Doğan
-
The protection and empowerment of Indonesian female migrant domestic workers: Proposals from a multi-stage analysis Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Rosita Tandos,Runping Zhu,Richard Krever
-
Women’s studies degrees as “political”: Some reflections from the Indian context Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-04-03 Arpita Anand
-
In the shadow of gender: Wives of prisoners in Turkey Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Seval Bekiroğlu,Seda Attepe Özden,Arzu İçağasioğlu Çoban
-
Presidential hairstyles: The politics of women political leaders’ appearance in the Korean media Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Hyun Gyung Kim
-
Migration a road to empowerment? Agency, resources, and the left behind women in Punjab, India Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Atinder Pal Kaur
-
Women’s experience of post-natal care: A study from Uttarakhand, India Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Asmita Verma,Sourabh B. Paul
ABSTRACT Although significant strides have been made in improving maternal and child health outcomes following the millennium development goals, India's progress has been slow, as reflected by its relatively high maternal and child mortality rates. This calls for investigation into the quality of care (QOC) offered to women during pregnancy and childbirth. This study uses primary data to evaluate women's
-
Themes of the “comfort women” and “we” in K. Min’s Herstory Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Hyunsuk Lee
ABSTRACT In the film Herstory, directed by K. Min, themes about the “comfort women” issue, regarding apology, reparation and justice are newly interpreted from “our” perspective. As apology and reparations by Japan for comfort women became important, Herstory suggests we should reflect on ourselves, whether we are cognizant of the plight of others, and recalls the true meaning of reparations. Also
-
Exercising agency: A Bourdieusian account of Iranian feminist translators Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Ali Jalalian Daghigh,Jariah Mohd Jan,Sheena Kaur
ABSTRACT In spite of the challenges imposed on practices of feminist cultural production in restrictive states, feminist activists have contributed to speaking about the needs of women through their writings and translations. While earlier studies have highlighted the role of translators in communicating external feminist ideas, factors that have contributed to their agency remain unexplored. The present
-
Gender regimes, reproductive strategies and child sex preferences: A comparative study of villages in Jammu and Leh Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Charumita Vasudev,Ravinder Kaur
ABSTRACT Much of the literature on sex ratio imbalances in India has focused on the North–South divide or exclusively on the North-western states of India. In this paper, we draw on ethnographic research on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, where the child sex ratio (0–6 years) plummeted in the 2011 census. We study two villages in the Hindu dominated district of Jammu and two in largely Buddhist
-
Mothers for life? Exploring emotional vulnerability of Indian commercial surrogate mothers Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta,Suzanne Merlijn Bakker
ABSTRACT In this article, we look at the predicament of Indian commercial surrogates and how they cope with the knowledge that the child they are carrying must be relinquished by them soon after delivery. How can a surrogate distance herself emotionally from the baby she is carrying? And to what extent is she supported by other surrogates, her family members and the social environment? Much has been
-
Re-making the self: Discourses of ideal Islamic womanhood in Kerala Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 P. Shabna,K. Kalpana
ABSTRACT This paper explores the discursive construction of ideal Islamic womanhood and its associated gendered subjectivities in the South Indian state of Kerala. It outlines the articulation of ideal womanhood in and through intra-community debates between the principal Muslim groups (“traditionalists” and “reformists”) in Kerala regarding the status of women in Islam. It traces the making of a discourse
-
The birth professionals: Emerging practices of birthing in contemporary India Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Sreya Majumdar,Anindita Majumdar
ABSTRACT In this paper, we define what we understand by birth professionals and examine how they have emerged in India in response to existing obstetric and gynecological practices. The focus here is on the emerging category of the “birth professional,” as we look back into how professional midwifery, doulas, childbirth educators and lactation consultants have come to define “newer” birthing options
-
Citizen of the world, Soon-Young and the UN Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Rosevi Mojica-Sung
-
Move over? Feminist reading of academic writing on Kurdish women Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Özlem Belçim Galip
ABSTRACT Research on Kurdish women has burgeoned during the last decade, which is a positive sign of the growing interest regarding a highly marginalized population and region. However, most of these works contain theoretical and methodological inadequacies, fallacies and contradictory messages regarding the agency, or lack of it, of Kurdish women, along with an orientalist approach. Using feminist
-
Datafied body projects in India: Femtech and the rise of reproductive surveillance in the digital era Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Paro Mishra,Yogita Suresh
ABSTRACT This article examines the growing industry of digital self-tracking technologies designed for the female body, popularly known as femtech. Focusing mainly on reproductive technologies and applications, it situates femtech within the broader historical context of excluding women from research on medicine and clinical trials. Approaching femtech as datafied body projects, we argue that, even
-
Empowerment and subjugation: Re-conceiving commercial surrogacy as work–labor in India Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Khushboo Srivastava
ABSTRACT Feminist analysis of surrogacy remains caught between calls for abolition on the one hand, and regulation, on the other. Within this dualistic discourse, the question of recognizing commercial gestational surrogacy as a new form of work–labor remains undermined. This paper brings together the abolition-regulation conceptual framework to examine surrogacy as work–labor. Based on ethnographic
-
Entanglements of reproductive practices in India: Sex ratios, fertility, birthing and new reproductive technologies Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Ravinder Kaur,Paro Mishra,Anindita Mahumdar
Entanglements of reproductive practices in India: Sex ratios, fertility, birthing and new reproductive technologies Ravinder KAUR, Paro MISHRA and Anindita MAHUMDAR Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India; Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India; Department of Liberal Arts, Indian
-
Breaking free from patriarchal appropriation of sacred texts: An Islamic feminist critique of Bol Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Azam Sarwar,Hong Zeng
ABSTRACT This paper is focused on Shoaib Mansoor’s feminist film, Bol (2011), seen as a commentary on religious “absolute explanatory schemes.” 1 Arguing that the film demonstrates how Pakistani patriarchy maneuvers sacred texts to construct comforting illusions for women, this paper uses the theory of Islamic Feminism to unravel the politics of religious interpretation and the discursive influence
-
“If I cannot give birth to a child, why would anyone accept me?”: Menstrual anxieties, late marriage, and reproductive aging Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-10-02 Swayamshree Mishra,Ravinder Kaur
ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore how women who are unable to conform to age-specific conventions of marriage and childbearing construct their adult identities in socio-cultural contexts that valorize fertility and mandate compulsory marriage and motherhood. Through a detailed ethnography of women’s experiences with menstrual anomalies and reproductive aging, this study examines Odia women’s negotiations
-
Recognizing invisible work: The women domestic workers' movement in Bangladesh Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Anweshaa Ghosh
ABSTRACT Domestic work is a highly feminized sector of work in Bangladesh, where women from poor neighborhoods of Dhaka city are found laboring for very low wages, without legal or social protection. Such work remains unrecognized and invisible, although it has been done for generations. Over the years, mobilization of domestic workers (DWs) by the National Domestic Women Workers Union (NDWWU) has
-
Professional discourses, gender and identity in women’s media Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Rong Wan
In Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women’s Media, Melissa Yoong investigates the repercussions caused by the neoliberal feminist and postfeminist ethos embedded in media discourses ...
-
Impact of emergency cash assistance on gender relations in the tribal areas of Pakistan Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Asif Iqbal Dawar,Marcos Farias Ferreira
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to make a contribution to the discussion on the consequences of social change brought about by relief programs in humanitarian contexts. It examines the extent to which the Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) program (2014–2016) in the Pakistani tribal district of North Waziristan (NW) has influenced patriarchal gender norms in the region, in transforming perceptions about what
-
Struggling against religious rules and patriarchy: Druze women strive for education in Israel Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Ebtesam Barakat
ABSTRACT This paper presents the narratives of Druze women in Israel, focusing on their strategies in dealing with their parents and the clergy for obtaining secondary and higher education. These reveal their use of different forms of agency in their struggle for education, pointing to the key role played by their mothers. I argue that these patterns are related to the intersectionality of at least
-
Gender and nationality: Experiences of “foreign” women in colonial India during the war years Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Indu Agnihotri
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to open up a field of enquiry and focus on encounters between the colonial regime in India and “foreign” women around the time of the World Wars. The terms on which trans-continental lives were negotiated came to be embedded in legal regimes which were continuously evolving. The interface of women and the colonial state needs to be studied from multiple socio-political locations
-
The role of rural women in household food security and nutrition management in Bangladesh Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Subarna Ghosh,Liton Chandra Sen,Sujan Kanti Mali,Md. Mozahidul Islam,Jhantu Bakchi
ABSTRACT Ensuring nutrition at the household level has been one of the greatest challenges for rural communities in Bangladesh. In this study, a coastal sub-district in Barguna, Bangladesh was selected for data collection, where we undertook 20 focus group discussions, 10 key informant interviews, and dietary diversity scoring with 50 respondents to understand women’s involvement in decision-making
-
Moving towards empowerment: Migrant domestic workers in India Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Shriya Thakkar
ABSTRACT The massive spurt in rural labor migration has led to urbanization in contemporary India. While research on gendered migration of informal labor focuses on male-outmigration and views women as “passive followers,” this study draws on the narratives of women domestic workers in Delhi to explore how they emerge as breadwinners within their households and how this sudden transformation of employment
-
Japanese women’s desire to learn English: Commodification of feminism in the language market Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Jelena Košinaga
ABSTRACT This critical ethnographic study explores the lived experiences of Japanese women and their desire to learn English in view of what can be referred to as the commodification of feminism. I approached 11 Japanese women to understand what kinds of desires they had to learn English and how they experienced the power derived out of learning the language. The data represented six themes: (1) desire
-
Witch hunts: Culture, patriarchy, and structural transformation Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Tanisha Chakma
-
Women leaders in Pakistani academia: Challenges and opportunities Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Rabia Ali,Asma Rasheed
ABSTRACT Research on women’s leadership has been largely male-centric and has used masculine characteristics to measure and evaluate such roles. This paper aims to unveil women’s leadership in Pakistani universities. Using a feminist perspective, we argue that female academics encounter multiple barriers at work. The data for this paper was collected via in-depth interviews with twelve women leaders
-
Women officials of the Turkish Diyanet: Gendered transformations and predicaments of empowerment? Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Canan Aslan Akman
ABSTRACT The Presidency of Religious Affairs (the Diyanet) is a unique bureaucratic structure authorized to address the religious service needs of citizens in Turkey’s secular system. For a long time, it was characterized by under-representation of women in its ranks. The longstanding quest of educated religious women for recognition of their expertise and integration into this institution coincided
-
(Re)visiting the past: Wounded history and traumatized memory in Qurratulain Hyder’s sita betrayed and fireflies in the mist Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Goutam Karmakar,Basundhara Chakraborty
ABSTRACT Qurratulain Hyder is a major stalwart of the new generation of Urdu fiction writers. In her book Naya Afsana, she discusses psychologized realism wherein the past gives way to the present. She also depicts how a human being becomes a representation of the collective past via writings of his/her community's collective past. Blurring every possible binary of past/present, home/world, private/public
-
“Even if I die I won’t get a holiday”: Daily indignities and vulnerabilities of women domestic workers in Pune, India Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Nioshi Shah,Ravikant Kisana
ABSTRACT In the absence of proper legislative regulation, women domestic workers in India are vulnerable not just to low wages but are subject to a host of unfair social practices and disrespectful behavior. This is because domestic work is part of deeper and ingrained casteist and patriarchal mores and practices. As such, these workers have to deal with many indignities as part of their employment
-
Do students support equal rights to land and inheritance? Reflections from Bangladesh Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 Jinat Hossain,Kazi Tanvir Mahmud
ABSTRACT The issue of inheritance rights in Bangladesh is a debatable one, given the many laws provided in different religions and varied interpretations of these. This study is focused on assessing students’ perceptions about gender equality with respect to inheritance of land. Primary data were collected from university students in Bangladesh using Simple Random Sampling (SRS) technique. Binary Logistic
-
Handbook on gender in Asia Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Jungyun Mah
-
From the personal to the political: Young, Filipino, and feminist Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Nathalie Africa-Verceles
ABSTRACT The new generation of Filipino feminists, like all young people, not only have characteristics and experiences that are different from those of the older generation, they are also subject to a culture of seniority. As young women who are conscientized about and act against social injustice, they acquire further distinctiveness. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions
-
Women’s trafficking in twenty-first century India: A quest for regional variations Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Bhaswati Pal,Tarun Kumar Mondal
ABSTRACT Trafficking of women is a serious global concern today that threatens many women’s lives and security and violates their rights and dignity. This represents a cross-border criminal trade, mainly for the purpose of marketable sexual exploitation. India has rampant and widespread trafficking of women and comprehensive studies are required to assess its dynamics for prevention. This paper attempts
-
Women’s empowerment through strategic disobedience: A study of community radio in rural Bangladesh Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Rawshon Akhter,Md Azalanshah Md Syed
ABSTRACT This paper examines how rural women in Bangladesh use community radio programs designed to combat gender inequality for empowerment. In doing so, it considers community power dynamics in Teknaf, a remote rural area of Bangladesh; the content of broadcasts by the local radio station, Radio Naf; and its listeners’ attitudes regarding the station. By using community radio programs as casual knowledge
-
From vulnerability to resilience: A study of the livelihood struggles of tiger widows in Bangladesh Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Nahid Sultana,Soma Dey
ABSTRACT Livelihood management is a severe challenge in the coastal area near the Sundarbans mangrove forests of Bangladesh. Human-tiger conflict in the area further complicates the situation and generates a group of women known as tiger widows who have lost their husbands because of attacks by tigers. They are therefore socially stigmatized as cursed and harbingers of bad luck. As a result, the lives
-
The world of the Banaras weaver: A culture in crisis (Second edition) Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Wandana Sonalkar
-
Split: A life—the saga of a woman in search of equanimity Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Sangeeta Sharma,Anushree Sharma
-
In search of Filipino “women in the middle” Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Excelsa C. Tongson
ABSTRACT The ‘sandwich generation’ is a unique familial position and refers to persons who are expected to care simultaneously for children and older adults in extended families. The non-availability of information about women of this cohort in leading government sources of data and their invisibility in the care work discourse led me to investigate their condition. Data for three census years—1990
-
Negotiating femininity, motherhood and beauty: Experiences of Pakistani women breast cancer patients Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Taskeen Mansoor, Saadia Abid
ABSTRACT Breasts are a symbol of femininity, sexuality and maternity and therefore play a role in the way breast cancer is perceived by society. Goffman in 1963 sees stigma such as arising out of disease, by noting that people with socially undesirable characteristics have “spoiled identity” that leads to social discrimination and devaluation. This qualitative feminist ethnographic study explores understanding
-
Roles and voices of farmers in the “special purpose” forest area in Indonesia: Strengthening gender responsive policy Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi, Sandy Nur Ikfal Raharjo, Desmiwati, Kresno Agus Hendarto, Aam Aminah, Tri Astuti Wisudayati, Hasan Royani, Anggi Dian Safitri Hasibuan, Dian Ratna Sari
ABSTRACT Using the Harvard Analytical Framework (HAF), we analyze the role of farmers (male and female) in the Special Purpose Forest Area of Parungpanjang, Indonesia. Primary data for this study were collected through interviews and focus group discussions with male and female farmers at the research site in September 2019. This shows that female farmers participate in all dimensions of productive
-
The voices of unmarried pregnant girls and the girlhood discourse in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Desintha Dwi Asriani
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the discourse of girlhood in Indonesia in the narratives of unmarried pregnant girls, based on ethnographic research in Yogyakarta. Given cultural taboos regarding these girls such instances are kept hidden. I seek to explain problems regarding teenage pregnancy here, with a focus on the experiences of pregnant girls to reveal how gender norms operate against them with
-
Compliance and resistance: An investigation into the construction of gender identities by Pakistani women on Facebook Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Rauha Salam
ABSTRACT Facebook has recently gained popularity among young, digitally literate and predominantly urban Pakistanis. Such social networking sites allow users the freedom to express themselves using usernames, visuals and topics of their own choice. In this article, I examine how Pakistani Facebook users mobilize such resources in their identity work. Using Multimodal Discourse Analysis, I investigate
-
Indonesian women and local politics: Islam, gender and network in post-suharto Indonesia Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Noraida Endut
Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi’s book, Indonesian Women and Local Politics. Islam, Gender and Network in Post-Suharto Indonesia is a welcome work that adds to the corpus of knowledge on contemporary Islam...
-
Persisting patriarchy: Intersectionalities, negotiations, subversions Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Binu Mamparampil Varghese
In Persisting Patriarchy, Kochurani Abraham explores various feminist social responses to social hierarchy, structures of patriarchy, gender inequality, and hegemonic religiosity. The plight of Ind...
-
Bratya Basu’s “The Final Night”: The (im)possibility of gender equality and religious plurality Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Nandita Banerjee Dhawan
ABSTRACT This study attempts a feminist analysis of a work of historical fiction set within the tumultuous events of the partition of British India in 1947. It uses a play, Antim Raat or “The Final Night,” by Bratya Basu to portray how individual histories of injury in “private” and “public” domains, stay alive in the memory of the Muslim nationalist leader, Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the founding father
-
Gender relations, urban flooding, and the lived experiences of women in informal urban spaces Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Deepshikha Singh
ABSTRACT This study draws on qualitative data about gendered vulnerabilities and resilience in situations of urban flooding in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India. Women in informal urban spaces comprise marginalized groups who face greater risks in times of disaster owing to their inferior socioeconomic status and the hazardous geographical space they occupy. This study provides insights into the
-
Civil society and state relations in Turkey: Opposing trajectories of two Islamist women’s civil society organizations Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Asuman Özgür Keysan, Zelal Özdemir
ABSTRACT The Islamic women's civil society organizations (CSOs) in Turkey entered a new phase with the lifting of the headscarf ban, which had long been the focus of Islamic women’s activism against authoritarian gender policies in the country. Based on research conducted in 2012 and 2018 on two Islamist women’s CSOs that have been active here during the last two decades, AKDER (Women’s Rights Organization
-
Livestreaming: The mainstreaming of the commodified body and sexual labor in Thailand Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Anna Klara Shimshak
ABSTRACT In recent years, livestreaming applications have grown in popularity, with a concentration of users in Asia. This paper examines two popular livestreaming applications in Thailand, using a qualitative digital ethnographic approach, coupled with close visual analysis. Also, this research deals with livestreaming through a gendered lens, applying a feminist theoretical framework to explore factors
-
Going transnational? A feminist view of “comfort women” memorials Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Joohee Kim
ABSTRACT Sonyeosang (“comfort women” memorials) have become symbols of the memory war between Korea and Japan. Amidst heated nationalistic competition, the main battleground of this memory war is the U.S. This study observes how Kim Hak-sun, a victim of military sexual slavery by Japan, decided to speak out after meeting an atomic bomb victim in 1991. Focusing on this meeting, I argue that the amnesia
-
Women, development, caste, and violence in rural Bihar, India Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Amrita Datta, Shivani Satija
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the contradictions that exist between economic development and gender equity in India. It deploys concepts of cultural violence and symbolic hegemony to understand how gender and caste-based violence is normalized and institutionalized over time through cultural norms. It also uses an intersectional lens to examine the layers of marginalization and oppression. Based
-
Feminism, sexual violence and the times of #MeToo in India Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Mary E. John
ABSTRACT This article begins with the aftermath of the Delhi gangrape in 2012, which shook India and the wider world. It examines what new insights emerged as sexual violence and harassment became a touchstone for naming what ails women in India, in public life and for feminist politics. The essay goes on to point out how the special focus on violence has obscured the contexts structuring and constraining
-
Surrogate mother, the modest witness of new reproductive technology: Understanding technobiopower in the posthuman era Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Ae-Ryung Kim
ABSTRACT This paper explores the complex topography of technobiopower in what has been referred to as the posthuman era, following the commercial surrogacy phenomenon. To do so, I refer to commercial surrogates as the “modest witness” of this situation, a term derived from Donna Haraway’s conceptual toolbox. The modest witness starts from her situated position, and records and informs about what happens
-
Lakshmi the rebel: Culture, economy and women’s agency Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Sukrita Paul Kumar
-
Veiled courage: Inside the women’s resistance against violence through their writings Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Muhammad Imran, Yuee Chen, Xiaofei Matthew Wei, Samina Akhtar
ABSTRACT This article focuses on Afghan women’s courage in resisting physical and other violence and victimization through their writings. It argues that the absence of a strong Afghan female voice has led numerous female writers to highlight women’s issues in Afghanistan. It demonstrates the courage and gradual awakening of women in Afghanistan to fight against violence and victimization in a culturally
-
Advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights: An overview of the best practices in the Philippines Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Sarah Jane Arcos Biton
ABSTRACT Despite the existence of laws and policies, full realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender equality continues to be a challenge in the Philippines. Hence, civil society organizations explore different strategies to improve reproductive health (RH) service delivery and to create safe spaces for women. To understand these efforts further, this study will examine
-
Female body, femininity and authority in Bollywood: The “new” woman in Dangal and Queen Asian Journal of Women's Studies (IF 0.661) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Waseem Ahad, Selma Koç Akgül
ABSTRACT Bollywood’s departure from its earlier constructions of women as sex objects, victims of male violence, dependent, obedient and peripheral, is partly due to global/transnational cultural and economic flows that have influence in Indian society. What needs to be charted out is how patriarchal anxieties continue to emerge in recent Bollywood movies where women otherwise appear to assume assertive