Introduction: stitching together gender, textile and garment labor, and heritage in Asia - Melia Belli Bose Part I: Fashioning identity: textiles, garments, and belonging 1 Wearing a gendered tree: a new style of garments from early modern to twentieth-century China - Yuhang Li 2 Women for cotton and men for wool: consuming gendered textiles in colonized Korea - Kyunghee Pyun 3 Gendered blue: women's jeans in postwar Taiwan - Ying-chen Peng 4 Bhutanese women and the performance of globalization - Emma Dick 5 Weaving and dyeing the ideal of reproduction among Shidong Miao in Guizhou province - Ho Zhao-hua Part II: Gendering creative agency: women fashion designers, textile makers, and entrepreneurs 6 Soft power: Guo Pei and the fashioning of matriarchy - Kristen Loring Brennan 7 Investigating female entrepreneurship in silk weaving in contemporary Cambodia - Magali An Berthon 8 (Re)crafting distribution networks for contemporary Philippine textiles: women's advocacy and social enterprise - B. Lynne Milgram 9 Women weaving silken identities and revitalizing various Japanese textile traditions - Millie Creighton Part III: Creative voices for change: textiles, gender, and artivism 10 Entangled histories of craft and conflict: the story of phulkari textiles in The Singh Twins's Slaves of Fashion - Cristin McKnight Sethi 11 The politics of wastefulness and 'the poetics of waste': Ruby Chishti's sartorial interventions - Saleema Waraich 12 Made in Rana Plaza: Dilara Begum Jolly's garment factory-themed art - Melia Belli Bose Index.