Examines cultural complexities of gender by focusing on gender politics in Asia, with case studies from China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. It is a comprehensive volume that examines multiple aspects of gender politics (in terms of dress, healing, religious ordination, NGO activism, etc.) and brings interdisciplinary approaches of inquiry based on in-depth empirical data.

In so doing, this book demonstrates the great diversity in gender politics and women's strategies to negotiate and change gender relations individually or collectively.