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Imperial Japan and the Female Skin Divers (,) of Jeju Island, South Korea, region in South Korea for female skin diving. Studies on ., the female skin divers of Jeju Island, commenced during the colonial period as a field of Japanese research on the Korean peninsula, and have since expanded to incorporate folkloristics, ecology, and geography as well. This scholarship was

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Divorced Newcomer Korean Women in Japan: The Decision to Remain in Japan and Lifestyle Adjustments, the common characteristics of an aging population, a shortage of wives, a low fertility rate, and delayed marriage (Oishi 2005). In terms of international marriage in Japan, scholars have argued that migrant women endure long-term hardships as a result of moving to Japan for marriage. There is also

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Crafting Religious Selves in a Transnational Space: Japanese Women Who Converted to Islam upon Marrof this type of cross-border marriage increased during the 1990s following the rise in the number of Muslim labor migrants in Japan in the late 1980s. After marriage, a majority of the Japanese wives converted to Islam. Using longitudinal data collected since the late 1990s, this chapter examines th

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Working in the City and Rearing Children in the Hometown: Women-centered Relationships of a Patrilitrilineal” community along with the development of industrial society. As Ellen Judd presented the classic model of Chinese kinship organization, emphasizing patrilineality, patrilocality, and patriarchy, the notions of the centrality of men continue as a major framework for research on Chinese soci

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A Concerned Mother of the Souls in the House: The Agency of Vietnamese Elderly Women Who Live Alonese to live alone in their home villages. As the number of elderly people living apart from their children increases, many kinds of living arrangements for the elderly have grown, which also require appropriate narratives. As Hy V Luong argues, narratives on migration by migrants and migrant-receivin

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,A Regime Where the Woman’s Voice Is Heard: , as a Form of Abortion Ritual in Contemporary Taiwan, temple to temple, and shrine to shrine. Most worshippers are women. The abortion ritual aims to appease the aborted fetus spirits, called ., that are believed to wander the world of the living or the dead (the underworld), and long for the care of their parents. Within this context, miscarriage or

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,The Role of Women’s Self-Help Networks in Anti-caste Discrimination Movements in Nepal,e, who have historically been engaged in slaughtering, processing, and trading livestock (their caste-ordained role) and suffered from discrimination as “l(fā)ow caste,” I will describe shifts in strategies in their networking process during anti-caste discrimination movements of the 1950s, 1990s, and 2

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,A Regime Where the Woman’s Voice Is Heard: , as a Form of Abortion Ritual in Contemporary Taiwan,abortion is seen as an inappropriate means of ending a life. This discourse further claims that the fetus spirits should be released from their attachments and that their parents’ karma should be reduced.

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Introduction: Pluralizing Images, the Sphere of Everyday Life, and the Agency of Relatedness: Reprenceal several indispensable details. Maybe because of that, Trinh Minh-ha wrote that “[w]henever friendly editors of journals and anthologies asked me to contribute writing in the area of race, ethnicity, class, gender and postcolonial theories, the only work I sent out for publication was poetry” (2011, 13).