'It's cutting-edge level of inquiry and reflection makes this book an excellent tool for research and teaching' - Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

• 1: Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia; 2: Indonesian women at work; 3: Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town; 4: Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes; 5: Between compliance and esistance; 6: ‘Flower vase and housewife'; 7: Chinese cultural revivalism; 8: Vietnam's women in the renovation era; 9: ‘Dutiful daughters’, estranged sisters; 10: The gendering of post-war Philippine politics