Women's suffrage in Asia : gender, nationalism and democracy / edited by Louise Edwards and Mina Roces.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : orienting the global women's suffrage movement / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces -- Is the suffragist an American colonial construct? : defining 'the Filipino woman' in colonial Philippines / Mina Roces -- Chinese women's campaigns for suffrage : nationalism, Confucianism and political agency / Louise Edwards -- Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia / Susan Blackburn -- Women's suffrage in Viêt Nam / Micheline R. Lessard -- Citizenship and suffrage in interwar Japan / Barbara Molony -- Expanding their realm : women and public agency in colonial Korea / Ken Wells -- The politics of women's suffrage in Thailand / Tamara Loos -- Tradition, law and the female suffrage movement in India / Gail Pearson -- Settler anxieties, indigenous peoples and women's suffrage in the colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawai'i, 1888 to 1902 / Patricia Grimshaw.