Editor’s Note: Gender and Literary Resistance – Multiple Insights From Asian Contexts

Following the inaugural issue of 'Women and Literature,' published in December 2025, I am pleased to present additional seven papers for this upcoming issue.The seven articles collected in this second special issue of 'Women and Literature' examine how women across Asia and South Asia negotiate agency, articulate resistance, and transform gendered subjectivity through language, literature, and cultural practices.Rather than celebrating women's voices uncritically, the collection demonstrates sophisticated attention to how access, visibility, and expression are simultaneously enabled and constrained by technological platforms, publishing industries, patriarchal structures, and broader processes of globalization.The papers share commitment to attending carefully to cultural specificity and linguistic particularity while engaging with broad theoretical frameworks, thereby modeling contemporary best practices in transnational feminist scholarship.