Asia The importance of female workers for India’s future economic growth January 28, 2020 0 Image Credit: Female health workers in India by CDC Global/Flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Ankita Shree. The Indian economy is going through a difficult phase, considering its much-vaunted…
China The unfinished sexual revolution in China November 20, 2019 0 Image Credit: Beijing China by James Macey/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. Written by Xiying Wang. ‘Sexual revolution’ has become a buzzword used by scholars both…
Asia The Women’s Reservation Bill in India: Participation and representation May 24, 2019 0 Written by Ankita Shree. Image credit: World Bank Photo Collection/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The Indian parliamentary elections of 2019 mark one of the biggest democratic elections…
Asia Patriarchy in practice: The predicament of women in Pakistani society May 21, 2019 0 Written by Omaima Lone Image credit: Ithmus/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Some fourteen centuries ago, the religion of Islam pronounced men and women as being equals.…
Taiwan Gender, Women and Buddhism in Taiwan March 1, 2019 0 Written by David Schak. Women have long been second-class beings in Buddhism, occupying a status well below that of males. They were said to invite disasters and to be polluted, temptresses, dull, flirtatious, vain and too flighty to…
Taiwan Women as Workers, Women as Agents: Studying Labor and Gender in Industrial and Postindustrial Taiwan February 12, 2019 0 Written by Anru Lee One question central to my anthropological enquiry has been the role of social being – the person, subject, actor – in society and…
China Church, state and society: the misconceptions surrounding China’s Christians November 19, 2018 0 Written by Gerda Wielander. Will Chinese Christians bring social and political transformation? This was the question at the start of my in-depth study of contemporary…
Elections Missed opportunities: time is running out for the Indian government to pass legislative gender quotas bill November 7, 2018 0 Written by Carole Spary. India’s next national election is due in summer 2019, when more than 800 million voters will again exercise their power to…
Education Project Hope: A charity from Nottingham improving the lives of single mothers in Sri Lanka November 6, 2018 0 Kilian Bachmair As part of the Rosie May Foundation’s international internship programme, four students from the University of Nottingham spent three weeks at the foundation’s…
Film In the time of Village Rockstars November 6, 2018 0 Written by Tusharika Deka. Every film and piece of art has its own destiny. In this article, I look at the journey and destiny of…
