Feminism in Asia

Assertions of Self: The Nascent Women's Movement in Central Asia. 1995.
Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China.
Ranging from interviews with contemporary writers, to historical accounts of gendered writing in Taiwan and semi-colonial China, to close feminist readings of individual authors, these essays confront the degree to which textual stategies construct notions of gender. Among the specific themes discussed are: how femininity is produced in texts by allocating women to domestic space; the extent to which textual production lies at the base of a changing, historically specific code of the feminine; the extent to which women in modern Chinese societies are products of literary canons; the ways in which the historical processes of gendering have operated in Chinese modernity vis à vis modernity in the West; the representation of feminists as avengers and as westernized women; and the meager recognition of feminism as a serious intellectual current and a large body of theory.
Originally published as a special issue of Modern Chinese Literature (Spring & Fall 1988), this expanded book represents some of the most compelling new work in post-Mao feminist scholarship and will appeal to all those concerned with understanding a revitalized feminism in the Chinese context.
Barlow, Tani, ed. Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism. Duke Univ. Press, 1993.

Croll, Elizabeth J. Feminism and Socialism in China. (out of print)
Allison, Anne. Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. 1996.
Beauchamp, Edward R., ed. Women and Women's Issues in Post World War II Japan. Garland Pub., 1998.
Buckley, Sandra, ed. Broken Silences: Voices of Japanese Feminism. 1997.
Bunch, Charlotte, ed. Voices from the Japanese Women's Movement: Ampo Japan-Asia Quarterly Review. M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
Cherry, Kittredge. Womansword: What Japanese Words Say About Women. Koshada International, 1992.
Condon, Jane. A Half Step Behind: Japanese Women Today. 1991.
Enculescu, Rodica. Japanese Feminism: How Will It Be? 1997.
Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko and Atsuko Kameda, ed. Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future. 1995.
Gelb, Joyce and Marian Lief Palley, ed. Women of Japan and Korea: Continuity and Change. Temple Univ. Press, 1994.
Imamura, Anne E., ed. Re-Imaging Japanese Women. Univ. of California Press, 1996.
Iwao, Sumiko. The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality. Harvard Univ. Press, 1994.
Matsui, Yayori. Women in the New Asia. Spinifex Press, 1999.
Matsui, Yayori. Women's Asia. 1989.