ISBN:
9781137289919
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.420941
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
;
Women-Great Britain-Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: The Genesis of a Transnational Collaborative Project -- 2 Conceptualising and Investigating the Gendered Consequences of Modernity in Britain and Hong Kong -- Re-Thinking Intimacy and Modernity -- Modernity or Modernities? the Asian Experience -- From Theory to Research -- 3 Interconnected Histories: Locating Women's Lives in Time and Space -- Global Interconnections and the Founding of Hong Kong -- Gender, Empire and Social Inequality in Britain and Hong Kong -- War, Its Aftermath and Post-War Developments -- Education and Social Mobility -- Unequal Opportunities -- Protest and Change: 1960s and 1970s -- From the 1980s Onwards -- Twenty-First Century Lives -- 4 What Makes a Family? Meanings and Practices -- Conceptualising Family Life -- Changing Family Forms and Practices -- The Mothers' Children -- Meanings and Practices of Families: Within and Between Households -- Reciprocity, 'Filial Piety' and Obligation -- Conclusion -- 5 Mother-Daughter Relationships -- Childrearing, Discipline and Surveillance -- Educating Daughters: Project or Investment? -- Managing Daughters' Sexuality -- Practices of Intimacy in Mother-Daughter Relationships -- Difficult Conversations -- Concluding Comments -- 6 Love and Sex in Marital and Non-marital Contexts -- Pathways into Relationships Among the Mothers' Generation -- Changes in Relationships over Time -- New Relationships -- From Mothers to Daughters -- Pragmatism and Morality -- Conclusion -- 7 Imagined Futures in Uncertain Times -- To Marry or not? -- Career Versus Motherhood? -- Tradition and Modernity -- Visions of the Future: The Bigger Picture -- 8 Concluding Reflections -- References -- Index.
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