Table of Contents

1. Introduction (Helle Rydstrom); 2. Gendering Asia after Modernity (Maila Stivens); 3. Neo-Liberalism and Gender Governance in Vietnam (Nguyen-vo Thu-huong); 4. Women as Symbols in Hindu Nationalism (Sidsel Hansson and Catarina Kinnvall); 5. Poor Workers and Vendors in Urban Vietnam (Anne Jerneck); 6. Shades of Gender and Security in Cambodia (Alexandra Kent); 7. Gender Inequality and Socially Engaged Buddhism in Thailand (Monica Lindberg Falk); 8. Family Life and the Recognition of Women in Vietnam (Helle Rydstrom); 9. Gendered Expectations and Intergenerational Support among Chinese Singaporeans (Kristina Goransson); 10. Making the Male Norm Visible in Thai Politics (Elin Bjarnegard); 11. The Cultural Construction of Masculinity among Working-class Malaysian Chinese (Ulf Mellstrom); Index.

About the Author

Helle Rydstrom is an Associate Professor at Lund University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Thematic Research, Linkoping University.