| | | | | | Asian Women is an international, peer-reviewed journal indexed in SSCI and SCOPUS that publishes scholarly research on women’s lives, gender relations, and feminist perspectives across diverse social and cultural contexts, with a particular focus on Asia. | | The journal features rigorous theoretical and empirical research articles that address social change, inequality, identity, intersectionality, and issues affecting women in both local and transnational settings. It welcomes submissions from researchers in all academic disciplines engaged in women’s studies, gender studies, and related fields, and encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and global academic exchange. | | We are pleased to announce the publication of Asian Women, Vol. 42 No. 1, March 2026. We sincerely invite the continued interest and support of our readers, and we encourage researchers to submit high-quality manuscripts to the journal. | | | |
| Volume 42(1); March 2026 | | Special Theme: Literature and Gender II | | Editorial | Editor’s Note: Gender and Literary Resistance – Multiple Insights From Asian Contexts
Park SJ. | 1 | | Articles | Singing Beyond Borders: Globalization, Technology, and the Gendered Commercialization of Haryanavi Women’s Folk Songs
Mann P, Mann B, Kumar D. | 4 | Reading as Resistance: A Study of the Female Reading Group “Woman in Lit” on Douban From a Micro-political Perspective
Meng L, Jiang Y, Wan A. | 26 | Metaphors by Which We Are Constructed: Conceptualizations of Men and Women in Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s English Self-Translation of The Mirror of Beauty From the Original Urdu
Kayani AI, Anwar B, Brashi A, El-Dakhs DA, Younas M. | 41 | Fragments of Suffering, Threads of Survival: A Comparative Study of Han Kang and Bapsi Sidhwa
Ajmal M, Iqbal F, Sadiq U, Zeb S. | 59 | Ethical Imagination Beyond Violence and Gender: A Possibility of Virtue Ethics in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Byun H. | 70 | Exploring Identity and Image Construction in the English Translation of Eileen Chang’s Se, Jie: An Identity Theory Perspective
Yu J. | 82 | How Feminist Killjoys Are Constructed: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Kim B. | 96 | | Articles | Breaking Gender Stereotypes: A Linguistic Analysis of Gender Representation in SNC-Based Elementary English Textbooks
Naureen S, Ahmad S, Imran M, Almusharraf N. | 110 | Creation, Marriage and Divorce of the Woman in the Context of the Old Testament and the New Testament
Zavalsız YS. | 127 | Validation of the Korean Version of the Barkin Index of Maternal Functioning (K-BIMF)
Ban M. | 139 | Unveiling Online Misogyny and Gender-Based Abuse Against Women in Bangladesh: A Thematic Analysis of Facebook Comments
Hossain MB, Panday PK. | 151 | Feminization of Labor and Women Workers of Kerala’s Handloom Sector
Gopalakrishnapillai R, Natarajan V. | 168 | Women Leadership in Catholic Church in Indonesia
Widyawati F, Lon YS, Midun H. | 183 |
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