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Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
The Ramayana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings. Made available in English for the first time, the 16th century version presented here is by Candravati, a...
To Be Published June 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
This book explores changing patterns of domestic violence in Asia. Based on extensive original research in the Maldives, it argues that forces of globalisation, consumerism, Islamism and democratisation are changing the nature of domestic relations, with shifting ideas surrounding gender and Islam...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational Pakistani marriages are between cousins or other more distant relatives, lending a particular texture to this transnational...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
Recent feminist scholarship has emphasized the need not only to recognize the accomplishments of women’s movements through political participation, but also to analyze the process through which feminist organizations interact with formal politics. This book takes up theoretical debates on the...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
Modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women’s education levels and rate of participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. This book examines the impact that these changes have had on East Asian gender politics and family...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian history and historiography, with an ultimate aim to broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
This new Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia. It covers the central contributions that have defined this area and captures innovative and emerging paradigms that are shaping the future of the field. It offers a wide range of disciplinary and...
To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated. It outlines the background of the French colonial period,...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
