ISBN:
9789004230606
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (345 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Patriarchy in East Asia
DDC:
306.85/8095
Keywords:
Patriarchy -- East Asia
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Families -- East Asia
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Social discrimination -- East Asia
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Married women -- East Asia
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Families ; East Asia
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Married women ; East Asia
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Patriarchy ; East Asia
;
Social discrimination ; East Asia
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Patriarchy in East Asia provides a coherent comparative analysis of gender in five East Asian societies. This is the first work of its kind done by a sociologist who is also fluent in all of the local languages
Description / Table of Contents:
Patriarchy in East Asia; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Gender; 1. A Sociology of Gender; 2. The Meaning of Comparison; 3. The Meaning of Making East Asia the Subject; PART ONE; 1. What is Patriarchy?; 1. Bringing Order to the Discussion of Patriarchy; 2. The Use of Patriarchy in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology; 2.1. Uses of the Concept in Cultural Anthropology; 2.2. Uses of the Concept in Sociology; 2.3. The Household System and Patriarchy in Japan
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3. How the Concept of Patriarchy is used by Feminists in the West3.1. Attempts to Investigate Psychological Origins; 3.2. Currents in the Study of Historical Origins; 3.3. Usage in Marxist Feminism; 4. Building a Broadly Applicable Concept of Patriarchy; 4.1. Peeling away the Layers of Danger Wrapped Around the Concept of Patriarchy; 4.2. Generation and Age as Elements; 4.3. Patriarchy as an Analytical Concept with the Greatest Common Denominator; 4.4. Describing the Forms of Patriarchy; 2. The Emergence of the Housewife and Transformations in Her Position
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1. Married Women Become Housewives and a Source of Labor1.1. Our Focus: Housewives and Women's Advance into Society; 2. Charting the Course of the Emergence of the Housewife; 2.1. Primitive Labor Relations; 2.2. The Advent of the Modern Housewife; 2.3. Contemporary Housewives; 2.4. The Disappearance of the Housewife; 3.1. Building Socialism; 3.2. Indigenization of Socialism; PART TWO; 3. Socialist Models; 3. The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy; 1. Emergence from Primitive Labor Relations; 1.1. Patterns in the Labor Force; 1.2. Forms of Female Labor; 1.3. An Expansion of Workers' Incomes
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2. Background for Emergence of Japan's Modern Patriarchy-Confucianism and the Ideal of the Good Wife and Wise Mother2.1. Premodern East Asian Concepts of Women's Education; 2.2. Origin of the Idea of the Good Wife and Wise Mother (or Wise Wife and Good Mother) in China and Korea; 2.3. The Formation of the Ideology of the Good Wife and Wise Mother in Japan; 2.4. The Aim of the Ideological Campaign; 2.5. The Japanese Form of Modern Patriarchy; 3. The Advent of the Modern Housewife; 3.1. The Modern Housewife and a New View of the Family
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3.2. Duties of the Modern Housewife-Rational Household Management and Housework as Women's Natural Occupation3.3. The Culture Surrounding the Modern Housewife; 3.4. Salarymen and Professional Women; 4. The Modern Housewife in Wartime Conditions-Motherhood Emphasized Once Again; 4. Contemporary Patriarchy and the Housewife in Japan; 1. Postwar Economic Growth and New Forms of Industrialization; 1.1. The Spread of a Contemporary Lifestyle; 1.2. Labor Policies and Transitions in the Workforce; 2. Formation of New Patriarchal Norms; 2.1. Japan's Contemporary Patriarchy
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