Old challenges, new strategies : women, work and family in contemporary Asia
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Old challenges, new strategies : women, work and family in contemporary Asia
(Social sciences in Asia, v. 1)
Brill, 2004
- : pbk
Available at 16 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays in this volume explore women's working and family lives in contemporary East and Southeast Asia, focusing on conflict between family and work roles, structural obstacles in the workplace, and the impact of state policies on women's well-being. It also discusses strategies that women employ in response to structural contraints provided in the context. This volume covers a particularly wide range of societies, some of which were rarely studied, in contemporary Asia. By comparing these ten Asian economies that are at different stages of economic development, the volume demonstrates the way in which gender relations transform in the course of development. The book is particularly important for sociologists and anthropologists who are interested in gender and economic development.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Assessing Women's Roles in Asian Economies, Wei-Hsin Yu and Leng Leng Thang Part I: Negotiating Dual Roles 2. Gender, Family, and Forms of Labor Force Participation: Women and Non-standard Employment in Japan and Taiwan, Wei-hsin Yu 3. Married Women's Employment and Housework in South Korea, Sunhwa Lee 4. The Other Chief Executive Officer: Homemaking as a Sequencing Strategy and Career Project among Married Chinese Women in Singapore, Lai Ah Eng and Shirlena Huang Part II: Constraints in the Workplace 5. Clerical Work and Women's Employment in Japan: Female Occupation Theory Revisited, Shuichi Hirata 6. Changing Work Identities for Professional Women in Hong Kong, Ann Brooks 7. When Women Go Fishing: Women's Work in Vietnamese Fishing Communities, Pham Van Bich Part III: State and Gendered Policies 8. Pink-Collared Workers and the Family in Modernizing Malaysia: A Case Study of the Garment Industry, Vicki Crinis 9. Social and Economic Development among Rural Women in Northern Thailand, Angeline Ames and Todd Ames 10. Women in Split Families: The Case of Mainland Chinese Wives and their Hong Kong Husbands, Vivian W.Q.Lou and Looi Looi Low Part IV: Globalization, Migration, and the Impacts on Women 11. Cooperation and Competition across Border Markets: Changes in the Definition of Women's Weaving Activities in Lao-Thai Borderlands, Kyoko Kusakabe 12. Gendered Work, Migration, and Social Networks in Two Villages in West Java, Rachel Silvey 13. Challenging the Life Course
- Japanese Single Working Women in Singapore, Leng Leng Thang, Miho Goda, Elizabeth MacLachlan
by "Nielsen BookData"