Voices from Asian Feminist Activism

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Asian Journal of Women’s Studies

Central to the goal of the “Voices from Asian Feminist Activism” is providing a platform for individual and collective narratives of local activism, feminist movements, and women’s organizing in Asia and beyond. In this special section, various stories of grassroot empowerment and feminist movements provide a backdrop for building theories, conceptions, frameworks, and instruments in exploring feminist mobilization, women’s engagement and emancipation, transnational feminism, and online activism, among others.

Free to view for a limited time only, access resources on this special feature published in Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (AJWS), aimed to capture experiences of Asian activists engaged in local activism and emancipation programs for women.

Title	Author	Year, Volume, Issue
From the personal to the political: Young, Filipino, and feminist	Nathalie Africa-Verceles	2021, Vol 27, Issue 1
Feminist activism via social media in China	Chengting Mao	2020, Vol 26, Issue 2
Feminism without guarantees: Reflections on teaching and researching feminist activism in China	Sara Liao	2020, Vol 26, Issue 2
Transnational feminism and women’s activism: Strategies for engagement and empowerment in Bangladesh	Solnara Aktar	2019, Vol 25, Issue 2
Embodied forms of politics and identity in South Asian protest movements: Pinjra Tod and Delhi	Vanya Lochan	2019, Vol 25, Issue 1
From the stage to reality: Indigenization of The Vagina Monologues in China as feminist activism	Shuyan Zhou	2018, Vol 24, Issue 2
Blurring boundaries in women’s organizations in Malaysia: When the personal becomes the professional	Bandali Alifa	2017, Vol 23, Issue 1
Women’s political participation in South Korea and activist organizations	Kyung Jin Oh	2016, Vol 22, Issue 3
Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR): An effective framework for empowering grassroots women & strengthening feminist movements in Asia Pacific	Trimita Chakma	2016, Vol 22, Issue 2
Training instruments for environmental justice for women in Indonesia: A community development project of ASEAN Study Centre	Desintha D. Asriani	2016, Vol 22, Issue 1

About the Journal

AJWS aims to share and disseminate information and scholarly ideas about women’s issues in Asia and all over the world, with the view to develop women’s studies in Asia and expand the horizon of western-centred women’s studies. The journal offers research articles with a theoretical focus, voices from Asian feminist activism, country reports providing valuable information on specific subjects, and book reviews containing information on recent publications on women in Asia and elsewhere.

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