Gender and Sexuality Justice in Asia

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This book brings together a group of innovative scholars on the contemporary issue of effecting gender and sexuality justice in the context of Asia (with an emphasis on Southeast Asia, Australia and Hong Kong SAR), consonant with engendering a just, equitable and sustainable development for all. These grassroots initiatives are woven through three complementary sections of the book: gender justice in Asia, sexuality justice in Asia and finding resolutions through conflict. The book foregrounds strategies that aim to call out and challenge existing gender and sexuality injustices with regard to women and the LGBTIQA+ community by: assessing the efficacy of gender mainstreaming policies through micro-credit schemes for women in East Java, Indonesia, proliferating the signifiers of the hijab (veil) by postmodern Malay-Muslim women or 'Hijabistas' within the consumerist culture of Malaysia, making visible the injustices of the Syariah legal system for non-Muslim women and ground-breaking legislation that could potentially recognise same-sex marriages in Thailand, privileging the narratives of gay women diplomats within the highly masculinised field of diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region, foregrounding the narratives of Filipino gay men, intimate partner violence among young Indonesian Christian young people, masculine-identifying lesbians in Singapore, young LGBT people in rural Vietnam, a Chinese-Muslim Malaysian female-to-male transgender person and proposing new ways of becoming an inclusive church through the radical act of befriending persons living with HIV and AIDS in Southeast Asia. The book celebrates diverse and inclusive in envisioning and bringing to fruition a just and transformative society for all.