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Women’s Forum

Women’s Forum

Women’s Forum

The Women’s Forum of the ASAA is open to any member interested in promoting scholarship on women and/or gender in Asia or supporting women working within Asian Studies. The Women’s Forum:

Women’s Forum History

The ASAA Women’s Caucus was established in 1978 and changed its name to the Women’s Forum at the 2006 ASAA Conference. The forum has played a significant role in raising the profile of women doing research on Asia in Australia, as well as promoting research about women in Asia.

Conference

The Women in Asia Forum is supported by the Asian Studies Association of Australia and has in the past hosted a biannual interdisciplinary conference.

Previous conferences include:

Newsletters

The Women’s Caucus produced a newsletter 2-3 times a year up to 1997 before being replaced by the Women’s Forum Listserv.

Past editors include:

  • to 1994: Antonia Finnane
  • 1994-1997: Louise Edwards and Anne Cullen
  • 1997-1998: Andrea Whittaker

View scanned archived newsletters published between 1994 and 1997.

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