Gender in Modern East Asia

This book explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global and regional contexts.

Author: Barbara Molony,Janet Theiss,Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/01/2016
Pages: 554
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780813348759

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2016

About the Author
Barbara Molony is professor of history at Santa Clara University and author of numerous books and articles on gender in Japan. In addition to co-authoring Modern East Asia (Pearson, 2012), Molony has co-edited two scholarly works on gender in Japan and Asia, written a monograph on technology and investment in prewar Japan, and is currently working on a biography of Ichikawa Fusae.

Janet Theiss is associate professor of history and director of the Asia Center at the University of Utah, and co-editor of the journal Late Imperial China. She is the author of Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in 18th Century China (U California Press) and a number of articles on 18th century Chinese gender history.

Hyaeweol Choi is professor of Korean studies and director of the Korea Institute at the Australian National University. She is the author of Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (U California Press) and New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook (Routledge). She has also co-edited Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific (ANU Press).