Women’s Political Participation and Representation in Asia: Obstacles and Challenges Biography and Authority will find a

and Authority will find a wide and appreciative audience among students and scholars of Vietnamese culture

Ukrist Pathmanand is Research Professor in Political Science at the Institute of Asian Studies

is by no means always true of books dealing with so broad and deep a subject in so small a compass

and private Chinese trade and migration to the region

Niels Mulder investigates how Thai people in the urban middle classes think

Women’s Political Participation and Representation in Asia: Obstacles and Challenges Biography and Authority will find aEdited by Kazuki Iwanaga 2008. 320 pp., illus. Prominence has often been given to the lives and activities of such top female leaders in Asia as Indira Gandhi and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Indeed, the ability of a small elite of highly educated, upper class Asian women to obtain the highest political positions in their country is unmatched elsewhere in the world and deserves study. But, for those interested in a more detailed understanding of how women