Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures: A Casebook (Paperback)

Acknowledgments and Dedication

Note on Transliteration, Personal Names, and Titles of Works in This Volume

Introduction: Literature, Asia, Diasporas, and Pandemics of Gender Inequity and Gender-Based Violence

1. Confronting Tyrannies of Social Norms within and beyond Families

Overwhelmed by Exploitative Social Norms: Cho Namjoo's Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (2016)

Evading Prescriptive Social Norms: Murata Sayaka's Convenience Store Woman (2016)

Decades of Struggling against Social Norms: Da? Nga?n's An Insignificant Family (2005)

2. Struggling for Equity in Male-Dominated Professions

Moderating Medicine: Watanabe Jun'ichi's Beyond the Blossoming Fields (1970)

Making It in Media: Saba Imtiaz's Karachi, You're Killing Me! (2014)

Breaking Banking: Claire Tham's "The Gunpowder Trail" (1999)

3. Humanizing Migrant Reproductive Workers

Humanizing Sex Workers: Mey Son Sotheary's "My Sister" (1995)

Humanizing Care Workers: Zhou Daxin's Longevity Park (2018)

Humanizing Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers: Ratna Khaerudina's "Susi" (2010) and Ally Dalijo's "My Employer" (2009)

Humanizing Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers: Wena Poon's "Development" (2009)

4. Capitulating to and Fighting against Reproductive Violence

Restricting Reproduction: Kawakami Mieko's Breasts and Eggs (2019)

Banning Reproduction: Wang Nanfu and Zhang Jialing's One Child Nation (2019) and Ma Jian's The Dark Road (2012)

Reconceiving Surrogacy: Kishwar Desai's Origins of Love (2012)

5. Prosecuting Cultures of Shame, Silence, Rape, and Murder

Rape Culture, Silence, and Me Too on Trial: It? Shiori's Black Box (2017)

Multiple-Perpetrator Rape on Trial: Marianne Villanueva's "The Mayor of the Roses" (1999)

Wartime Sexual Violence and Shame on Trial: Kim Soom's One Left (2016)

Prosecuting Honor-Based Violence: Sarbjit Kaur Athwal's Shamed (2013)

6. Perpetuating and Interrupting Cycles of Family Violence

Escalating Violence: Tisa Muhaddes's "Over and Over Again" (2009)

Manipulating Violence: Kishwar Desai's Witness the Night (2010)

Imploding Violence: Patigul's Bloodline (2015)

Defying Violence: Selina Hossain's "Motijan's Daughters" (1995)

7. Intersecting Responsibilities for Intimate Partner Violence

Failures of Family, Friends, Health Professionals, Courts, and Bystanders: Meena Kandasamy's When I Hit You; or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (2017)

Bursting Fantasies: Pak Wans?'s "An Episode at Dusk, 2" (1987)

Dismissing Abuse: Shabnam Nadiya's "Teacher Shortage" (2008)

Without Recourse: Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife (1983)

Justice for Whom? Duanwad Pimwana's "Men's Rights" (2006)

Index