Download or read book Women's Suffrage in Asia written by Louise Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case studies presented. It explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage.