Asia's new mothers : crafting gender roles and childcare networks in East and Southeast Asian societies
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Asia's new mothers : crafting gender roles and childcare networks in East and Southeast Asian societies
Global Oriental, 2008
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  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 (p. [189]-203) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Asia's New Mothers, through a focus on childcare, offers a comparative regional analysis unique in English-language sources of changing gender roles in East and Southeast Asia. Taking into consideration the historical and cultural differences and similarities among the societies in the region, the authors employ indepth researches of people's everyday experiences. The research was conducted between 2001 and 2003 in six societies in East and Southeast Asia - Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore. While each makes its own unique contributions, most of the essays are informed by two theoretical focal points: modernization and gender and globalization and gender.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of plates
- 1 Researching gender and childcare in contemporary Asia
- 2 Gender roles and childcare networks in east and southeast Asian societies
- 3 A comparative study of childcare and motherhood in South Korea and Japan
- 4 Korean Women's life courses and self perceptions: Isomorphism of "family centeredness"
- 5 Housewifization and changes in Women's life course in Bangkok
- 6 Modern population trends, M-curve labor-force participation and the family
- 7 Foreign domestic workers in Singapore
- 8 The birth of the housewife in contemporary Asia: New mothers in the era of globalization
- 9 Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
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