A comprehensive coverage of all the major Asian countries by experts in the field.

Editors LOUISE EDWARDS and MINA ROCES have published widely on women in China and women in the Philippines respectively. They have both lived and worked in Asia for numerous years and currently lecture on women in Asia at the Australian Catholic University and University of New South Wales respectively. The majority of the contributors are international authorities in the field of women's status.

Notes on contributors, List of tables, Acknowledgements, 1. Contesting gender narratives, 1970-2000, 2. Becoming modern in Malaysia: women at the end of the twentieth century, 3. The status of women in a patriarchal state: the case of Singapore, 4. Women in the People's Republic of China: new challenges to the grand gender narrative, 5. Diversity and the status of women: the Indian experience, 6. Negotiating modernities: Filipino women 1970-2000, 7. Indonesian Women-from Orde Baru to Reformasi, 8. Rhetoric or reality?: contesting definitions of women in Korea, 9. Breaking the patriarchal paradigm: Chinese women in Hong Kong, 10. Being women in Japan 1970-2000, 11. Women in Taiwan: linking economic prosperity and women's progress, 12. Exploring women's status in contemporary Thailand, 13. Militarism, civil war and women's status: a Burma case study, 14. Re-gendering Vietnam: from militant to market socialism, Index, World Wide Web addresses on women in Asia