Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1873575
Yali Chen, Hao Tian, Jiang Chang
ABSTRACT Based on the conceptual framework of digital diaspora, this article explores the role social media plays in the development of migrant cultural identity and its political potential among digital forms. Using in-depth interviews and online observations, it analyzes the motives, purposes, strategies and outcomes of the use of WeChat, a leading Chinese social media platform, by Chinese female immigrants in Switzerland. Through thematic analysis, the article distills three patterns of WeChat usage by these women. Firstly, it notes how they make use of the technological affordances of WeChat to remain connected with their native culture. Secondly, it explains how, after acquisition of economic capital, they are able to forge a steady intersectional identity in their new host country. And finally, it problematizes their strategy to strive for social equality.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1901441
Eun-Shil Kim
Since its first publication in 1995, the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS) has been a forum for a community of feminist scholars interested and invested in the shaping and advancement of feminist knowledge across disciplines. In writing and representing scholarship over time, AJWS has continuously renewed its commitment to providing a space for debates and discussions that critically examine, on the one hand, new emerging aspects of feminism and, on the other, the regionality of Asia against the backdrop of the world. Although the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was a tough challenge for the journal to overcome, this global crisis has presented new opportunities for AJWS to broaden the spectrum of its focus and coverage in publication. For Volume 27, the journal welcomes unique and innovative submissions that deal with the socio-economic crises, environmental disasters, human diseases, and health risks that entangle with the complex realities of women and men surviving to surmount personal, familial, and national difficulties in life. Meanwhile, as a feminist journal, AJWS is steadfast in encouraging the academic community to sustain the mission to unravel gender gaps and present gender perspectives and critiques, in order to develop an alternative worldview or knowledge that counters, reinforces, or complements established, traditional, mainstream or orthodox perspectives. May we all remain strong and vigilant in keeping ourselves academically sound and physically healthy!
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1889115
Jungyun Mah
{"title":"Handbook on gender in Asia","authors":"Jungyun Mah","doi":"10.1080/12259276.2021.1889115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2021.1889115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44322,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Womens Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"152 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12259276.2021.1889115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49413101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1895482
I. Hwang, Semee Yoon
ABSTRACT Various studies have found that rural electrification can lead to female empowerment and promote paid work opportunities for women through increased access to, and productive usage of electricity. This study, however, reveals a more complicated story in rural China, where the socioeconomic effect of rural electrification on women remains varied, despite near-universal access to electricity. Using the 2012 China Family Panel Studies survey data, we find that while rural electrification is not associated with an increase in non-agricultural waged labor for women, it has a strong effect on directing them into participating in unpaid, non-agricultural family ventures. Despite its limited effect on encouraging female participation in formal employment, rural electrification still enables women to have stronger and more positive perceptions of their social status.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1889114
Sun Xuliang
{"title":"Becoming Guanyin: Artistic devotion of Buddhist women in late imperial China","authors":"Sun Xuliang","doi":"10.1080/12259276.2021.1889114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2021.1889114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44322,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Womens Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"156 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12259276.2021.1889114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45276443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1886032
Rawshon Akhter, Md Azalanshah Md Syed
ABSTRACT This paper examines how rural women in Bangladesh use community radio programs designed to combat gender inequality for empowerment. In doing so, it considers community power dynamics in Teknaf, a remote rural area of Bangladesh; the content of broadcasts by the local radio station, Radio Naf; and its listeners’ attitudes regarding the station. By using community radio programs as casual knowledge hubs, women adopt new and discursive methods of resistance by developing their persuasive and communication skills. They use such methods both to protect their rights and chip away at the inequalities they experience everyday. This kind of technique evokes effective and safe means of resistance—a form of strategic disobediences developed from satyagraha—the philosophy of non-violent resistance. The findings of this study are based on our ethno-methodological observations of community power dynamics and women’s participation in community radio activities, along with in-depth interviews of six female listeners of radio programs. These unpack the broader influence of the radio programs that talk about women’s empowerment.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1893924
Jingjun Hao, Peng Zhang, Wei Yu
ABSTRACT Promoting rural women’s education is a matter of great significance for gender equality in education and rural revitalization. Based on the 2015 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data and by using a quantitative decomposition method for studying differences between two groups (Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition method), it is seen that characteristic difference, coefficient difference and interaction item account for 40.24, 75.22 and −15.46% for the total gender variation in education in rural China respectively. Further analysis, based on the difference decomposition, shows that income, marital status, health status and parents’ educational attainments, are important factors that lead to gender differences in rural education, while these and the income of parents have higher marginal effects on education of rural women than of rural men. Quantile decomposition reveals the heterogeneity both in factors and their effects and of characteristic-coefficient difference contributions for different quantiles. The discrimination in education of rural females is more obvious at the lower stages of education. Therefore, income growth, improved supply of post-compulsory education for rural women, the construction of appropriate social support systems, and the formation of an intergenerational transmission effect of education within the household should effectively promote their education.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1887560
Bhaswati Pal, T. K. Mondal
ABSTRACT Trafficking of women is a serious global concern today that threatens many women’s lives and security and violates their rights and dignity. This represents a cross-border criminal trade, mainly for the purpose of marketable sexual exploitation. India has rampant and widespread trafficking of women and comprehensive studies are required to assess its dynamics for prevention. This paper attempts a study of the spatio-temporal variations of women’s trafficking in India from 2001 to 2015. It also seeks to identify underlying factors in its regional variations in the study period and highlights possible strategies for combating it. In spite of its persistence, the absolute numbers of trafficked women show a decreasing trend during this period. Historical tradition, socio-economic deprivation and cultural rigidity are major contributing factors in its regional variations. Awareness generation and empowerment of women are considered to play key roles for eradicating it apart from enforcement of legal provisions and active involvement by NGOs.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2020.1857136
Wandana Sonalkar
{"title":"The world of the Banaras weaver: A culture in crisis (Second edition)","authors":"Wandana Sonalkar","doi":"10.1080/12259276.2020.1857136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2020.1857136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44322,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Womens Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"564 - 569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/12259276.2020.1857136","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48497646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2020.1848210
H. Liu
ABSTRACT Kinmen, also known as Quemoy, is a unique offshore island of the Republic of China (ROC) that had an unusual and strategic position during the Cold War from 1946 to 1992. After 1949, Kinmen was forced to become involved in the military standoff between Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China in Taiwan (ROC) and Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic of China (PRC) during the cold war. Kinmen was under martial law for nearly 50 years from 1946 to 1992. The martial law was lifted in 1992 and Kinmen has become the frontline for cross-strait exchanges between the ROC and mainland China. Men’s heroic stories during the war have been studied and published, while women’s voices are systematically ignored. In order to examine the roles and value of women in Kinmen’s history, a case study methodology was used here. Su was one such unique woman, whose life story is investigated here. My main findings were about how she, as an active agent, used opportunities in order to overcome the major structural pressures of her life, while Kinmen underwent some major transitions. This paper is based on an account of this woman’s extraordinary struggles in different periods of time.
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