Asian women and intimate work
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Asian women and intimate work
（The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives / edited by Ochiai Emiko, v. 3）
Brill, 2014
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Ajia josei to shinmitsusei no rodo
アジア女性と親密性の労働
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Originally published in Japanese: アジア女性と親密性の労働. 京都大学学術出版会, 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award
This book comprises contributions from a distinguished group of international researchers who examine the historical development of "new women" and "good wife, wise mother," women's roles in socialist and transitional modernity and the transnational migration of both domestic and sex workers as well as wives.
Table of Contents
List of Figures, Photographs and Tables ... vii
Introduction: Intimate Work and the Construction of Asian Women ... 1
OCHIAI Emiko
PART ONE
IMAGINING INTIMATE WORK
1. Housewives' Work / Mothers' Work: The Changing Position of Housework in Dutch Society ... 37
NAKATANI Ayami
2. The "Housewife" and Housework in the Indian Urban Middle Classes ... 63
OSHIKAWA Fumiko
PART TWO
MULTIPLE FACES OF THE GOOD WIFE/WISE MOTHER
3. Troubles of the "New Women" in the Emergence of Modern Korea: Focusing on the Interrelationship between "Women's Liberation" and the Image of "Wise Mother and Good Wife" ... 93
SUH Ji Young
4. Selling Modernity: Housewives as Portrayed in Yuefenpai (Calendar Posters) and Magazine Advertisements in Shanghai of the 1920s and 1930s ... 107
WU Yongmei
5. The Gender Norms of Chinese Women in the Transitional Market Economy: Research Interviews with Wives in Three Urban Centers ... 139
ZHENG Yang
6. "To be Good at Public and Domestic Work, I Need Three Heads and Six Hands": The Dilemma of Vietnamese "Modern" Women ... 167
KHUAT Thu Hong, BUI Thu Huong and LE Bach Duong
PART THREE
WIVES AND WORKERS CROSSING BORDERS
7. From Farmers' Daughters to Foreign Wives: Marriage, Migration and Gender in the Sending Communities of Vietnam ... 191
Daniele BELANGER and TRAN Giang Linh, with LE Bach Duong and KHUAT Thu Hong
8. Commercially Arranged Marriage Migration: The Agency and Inner Struggle of Chinese Women ... 217
HAO Hongfang
9. Strategies of Resistance among Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore ... 239
UENO Kayoko
10. Moving from Modernisation to Globalisation: Migrant Sex Workers in Japan ... 263
AOYAMA Kaoru
11. The Role of Multicultural Families in South Korean Immigration Policy ... 289
LEE Hye-kyung
Index ... 313
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