【Contents】
| Foreword | Hiroko Hara | Advocacy and Independence: Maintaining an Appropriate Distance between NGOs and Government |
| Research Paper | Tomiko Yamaguchi | Women in Rula Yogyakarta: Their Participation in Poverty Alleviation Programmes |
| Masako Tanaka | Which Female-Headed Households is Really Vulnerable? Field Notes on Female-Headed Households of Squatter Settlements in Kathmandu, Nepal | |
| Mayumi Kato | Urban Community Development in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Challenges Beyond Micro-Credit and Community Empowerment | |
| Sumiko Yazawa, and Yoko Kunihiro | A Super-Aging Regional Community and the Feminization of Politics and Social Welfare: A Case Study of Oshima-cho, Oshima-gun, Yamaguchi Prefecture | |
| Hiroshi Sudo, Tadashi Inazuki, and Teppei Nishi | Consciousness of Gender and Senses of Reality of the Youth in Japan: From the Research of Gender Role Consciouseness of High School Students in Kitakyushu | |
| Articles | Keiko T. Tamura | Gender Roles in Japan and Singapore |
| Yoshiko Misumi | Political Empowerment of Japanese Women | |
| Trends of Women’s Studies in Asia | Darunee Tantiwiramanond | Trends of Women’s Studies in Thailand |
| Lily Phua | Trends of Women’s Studies in Singapore | |
| Special Contribution | Ela Bhatt | From Survival to Self Reliance: The Experience of India’s Women Micro Entrepreneurs |
| Rina Jimenez David | Women and Media in the Philippines | |
| Sumitra M. Gurung | Women’s Empowerment and Education: Case from Nepal | |
| Current Topics | Saparinah Sadli | Putting Violence Against Women on the National Agenda in Indonesia |
| Rina Jimenez David | Working with Reality: Women and the Anti-Sexual Harrassment Law in the Philippines | |
| Book Review & Introduction | Yutaka Shirakawa | From Social Realism to Wives Who Run and Stay: Short Stories by Korean Women Writers |
| Shiho Koga | A Search for Identity | |
| Kazuko Terada | Data on the Current State of Women in Kitakyushu | |
| Editor’s Note |
JPY 1,500 (out of print)
B5／198 pages
Published in 1999
ISSN 0918-8568
