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Women's Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism and Democracy
edited by Paul Gready, Institute for Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK

RoutledgeCurzon Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Routledge Curzon

June 2004: 234x156: 272pp: illus. 4 line drawings and 7 b+w photos
Hb: 0-415-33251-6: £60.00

Market: Asian History, Asian Politics and Women's History

Published by: Taylor and Francis Group

Synopsis:
Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case-studies presented. It explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage.

Author's previous publications include:
Women in Asia Edwards & Roces (Allen & Unwin, 2001) £14.99Women, Power and Kindship Politics Roces (Greenwood Press, 1998) £54.95Men and Women in Qing China Edwards (University of Hawai'iPress, 2001 £47.00

Contents:
Notes on Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgements:
1. Introduction: Orienting the Global Women's Suffrage Movement Louise Edwards and Mina Roces
2. Is the Suffragist an American Colonial Construct? Defining 'The Filipino Women' in Colonial Philippines Mina Roces
3. Chinese Women's Campaigns for Suffrage: Nationalism, Confucianism and Political Agency Louise Edwards
4. Women's Suffrage and Democracy in Indonesia Susan Blackburn
5. Women's Suffrage in Viêt Nam Micheline R. Lessard
6. Citizenship and Suffrage in Interwar Japan Barbara Molony
7. Expanding their Realm: Women and Public Agency in Colonial Korea Ken Wells
8. The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Thailand Tamara Loos
9. Tradition, Law and the Female Suffrage Movement in India Gail Pearson
10. Settler Anxieties, Indigenous Peoples and Women's Suffrage in the Colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawai'i, 1888 to 1902 Patricia Grimshaw