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The authors survey Northeast Asian studies at Australian universities with special reference to Japanese and Korean studies. The activities of the National Korean Studies Centre, jointly run by four Melbourne tertiary institutions, are described. (DÜI-Sen)

This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations in constructions of sexuality in highly developed, developing and emerging societies and economies. Both Japan and China have established traditions of 'sexuality' studies reflecting longstanding indigenous understandings of sex as well as more recent developments which interface with Euro-American m

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: IVF and Assisted Reproduction: Global Visions, Local Stories -- Chapter Outline and Historical Overview -- Language, Narrative and Media -- The Power of Analogy -- Rights and Needs -- Words Unsaid -- Assisted Reproduction: An Intimate Industry -- 2: Towards the Two 1978 Births -- Disciplines and Imaginaries -- Clinical and Scientific Disciplines -- The IVF Imaginary -- Bringing Together Ideas and Materials -- Materials, Tools and Techniques -- Tortuous Paths to IVF -- Global Contexts, National Priorities -- 'Making' IVF 'Right': Technical Promises, Ethical Issues and Women Pioneers117 -- 'Assembling' for 'Success' in the UK and India -- Conclusions -- 3: The Foundations of Global Assisted Reproduction -- Fertility Drugs and New Patient Cohorts -- The First Bourn Hall Meeting -- Media Responses -- Institutionalising Assisted Reproduction: Associations, Meetings, Journals -- International Training -- Money -- Commercial Ties: Drugs and Devices -- News Media and Public Relations -- Nations, Natalism and Assisted Reproduction -- Population and Procreation -- Eugenic Thinking and Assisted Reproduction -- Conclusions -- 4: Regulation and Risk -- Early Regulatory Moves -- Regulatory Activism: The Role of Religion -- Religion and Compliance -- Religion, AR and 'Left' Versus 'Right' -- Regulatory Activism: Peer Regulation -- Regulatory Activism: Feminist Interventions -- Case Study: Italy's Law 40/2004 -- Soft Regulation, Risk Management and Compliance Strategies -- Clinical Risk: The Example of Multiple Births -- Multiple Births and Patients' Perspectives -- Donor Anonymity -- Success Rates -- Conclusions -- 5: Oocytes, Surrogacy and Cross-Border Reproduction -- Donation and Selling of Oocytes -- Egg Donation -- Egg Sharing -- Egg Selling -- Oocyte Provider Profiling.

In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance

Preface and acknowledgments / Carol Johnson, Vera Mackie and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the social sciences / Vera Mackie, Carol Johnson and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Part I. Engaging diversity in the social sciences -- Australia in the global dynamic of social science : de-centering Europe and de-mythologising the 'Asian century' / Raewyn Connell -- Beyond divisions and towards internationalism : social sciences in the twenty-first century / Sujata Patel -- Part II. Regional issues in the social sciences -- Inter-Asia referencing and shifting frames of comparison / Chua Beng Huat -- Beyond the culturalist problematic : towards a global social science in the Asian century? / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Voices and choices in reproductive rights : scholarship and activism / Sylvia Estrada-Claudio -- Beyond Consumasia : the neglected challenges / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Rethinking economics in the Asian century : the market and state in China / Leong H. Liew -- Part III. Australian social sciences in the Asian century and beyond -- Australia's future in the Asian century / Ken Henry -- Asia literacy : a deeply problematic metaphor / Ariel Heryanto -- Challenges for Australian higher education in the Asian century / Simon Marginson.

Introduction -- Suffragists & suffragettes -- Revolutionary nationalists -- Workers -- The grandmothers -- Marching on

Yeoh, B. S. A. ; Teo, P. ; Huang, S.: Women's agencies and activisms in the Asia-Pacific region. (Introduction.) Phua, L. ; Yeoh, B. S. A.: Nine month. Women's agency and the pregnant body in Singapore. Haque, T.: Body politics in Bangladesh. Gallin, R. S.: The politics of resistance. Working-class women in rural Taiwan. Elmhirst, R.: Negotiating land and livelihood. Agency and identities in Indonesia's transmigration programme. Suzuki, N.: Gendered surveillance and sexual violence in Filipina pre-migration experiences to Japan. Weix, G. G.: Restisting history. Indonesian labour activism in the 1990s and the "Marsinah" case. Panelli, R.: Contradictory identities and political choices. "Women in agriculture" in Australia. Leckie, J.: The complexities of women's agency in Fiji. Mackie, V.: "Asia" in everyday life. Dealing with difference in contemporary Japan. Law, L.: Sites of transnational activism. Filipino non-government organisations in Hong Kong