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Re-negotiating Gender : Household Division of Labor when She Earns More than He Does / by Lake Lui

Dordrecht : Springer, 2013

Online-Ressource (IX, 154 p. 3 illus, digital)

Englisch

Re-negotiating Gender; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Research Site; 1.2.1 Women's Status in Hong Kong; 1.2.2 Chinese Families and Changes in Hong Kong; 1.2.3 Household Division of Labor in Hong Kong; 1.3 Objective and Significance; 1.4 Research Questions; 1.5 Book Structure; Chapter 2: Literature Review; 2.1 Theoretical Explanations of Household Division of Labor; 2.1.1 Relative Resource Theory; 2.1.2 Sex Role Theory; 2.1.3 "Doing Gender"; 2.2 Theoretical Framework; 2.2.1 Gender Ideologies; 2.2.1.1 Marital Power; 2.2.1.2 Expectations About Production Role

2.2.1.3 Expectation About Emotional Labor2.2.2 "Doing Gender" and Gender Strategies; 2.2.3 Existing Gaps of the "Doing Gender" Approach in Family Studies; 2.2.4 "Undoing Gender" or "Redoing Gender"; Chapter 3: Research Methodology; 3.1 Profile of Respondents; 3.2 Recruitment of Respondents; 3.3 Data Collection; 3.3.1 Phase 1: Discovery; 3.3.2 Phase 2: Replication and Verification; 3.4 Issues in the Interviews; 3.5 Data Analysis; Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Housework and Who Does What?; 4.1 Nature of Housework; 4.1.1 Substantive Complexity of Housework; 4.1.2 Routinization and Repetitiveness

4.1.3 Closeness of Supervision4.2 Who Does What?; 4.2.1 Quantitative Data; 4.2.2 Qualitative Data; 4.2.2.1 Women's Invisible Work; 4.2.3 Child-Minding over the Telephone; 4.2.4 Household and Child Management at the Office; 4.2.5 Emotional Work; 4.2.5.1 Children; 4.2.5.2 Parents and In-Laws; 4.2.5.3 Domestic Helpers; 4.2.5.4 Playing with Kids-Men's Work?; 4.3 Earnings and Housework Division; Chapter 5: The Changing Gender Ideology of Contemporary Hong Kong; 5.1 Overview of Couples' Gender Ideology; 5.2 Marital Power; 5.2.1 Domestic Responsibility as Empowering?

5.3 Expectations About Production Roles5.3.1 Wives as Mothers and Homemakers?; 5.3.2 Women's Identification with Their Work; 5.3.3 Domestic Helpers as Surrogate Mothers; 5.3.4 Mother's Guilt as a Reflection of Gender Ideology; 5.3.5 Husbands as Providers; 5.3.6 Lower Earning Husbands: "I Feel Like a Failure"; 5.4 Expectations About Emotional Labor; 5.5 Does Gender Ideology Alone Explain Housework Division?; Chapter 6: Housework Battles and Gender Strategies; 6.1 Husbands' Strategies; 6.1.1 Protests and Blatant Outbursts; 6.1.2 Delaying Tactics; 6.1.3 Display of Clumsiness

6.2 Wives' Compliance6.2.1 Wives' Perception of Fairness; 6.2.2 Displays of an "Appropriate Wife"; 6.2.3 Saving Men's Ego; 6.3 Wives' Resistance; 6.3.1 Feigned Helplessness and Stupidity; 6.3.2 Nagging and Grumbling; 6.3.3 Using Praise; Chapter 7: Children, In-Laws, and "Doing Gender" of Couples; 7.1 How Do Children Encourage the "Doing Gender" of Husbands and Wives?; 7.1.1 Mother-Seeking Habits; 7.1.2 Emotional Displays; 7.1.2.1 Tears and Laughter; 7.1.2.2 Protests; 7.1.2.3 Love and a Shift of Love; 7.1.3 Excluding Father's Mothering; 7.1.4 Why Mom, Not Dad?; 7.1.5 Mom's Resistance

7.1.5.1 Explaining in the Face of Protests

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978-94-007-4848-4 ; 1-283-63419-8 (ebk); 978-1-283-63419-9 (MyiLibrary)

978-94-007-4847-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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OCoLC: 815509489 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-94-007-4848-4

MS 1900      Ähnliche Literatur

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bicssc: JHBK ; bisacsh: SOC026010 ; bisacsh: FAM000000

*Hongkong ; Familie ; Rollentausch ; Geschlechterrolle      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Social sciences ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Developmental psychology

In Chinese societies where both "money” and "gender” confer power, can a woman’s economic success relative to her husband’s bring about a more equal division of household labor? Lui’s qualitative study of "status-reversed” Hong Kong families, wherein wives earn more than their husbands, examines how couples re-negotiate household labor in ways that perpetuate male dominance within the family even when the traditional gender expectation that "men rule outside, women rule inside” (nanzhuwai, nuzhunei) is challenged. Going beyond the dyadic negotiation of household labor, this important study also explores the role of "third parties,” namely the couples’ children and parents, who actively encourage couples to conform to traditional gender norms, thereby reproducing an unequal division of household labor. Based upon the experiences of families with stay-at-home dads, Lui further identifies a new mechanism of deconstructing gender, by which couples concertedly construct new norms of 'work' and 'gender' that they maintain through daily interactions to fit their atypical relative earnings. As a result, there are sparks of hope that both men and women can be liberated from a set of traditional social norms. Re-negotiating Gender: Household Division of Labor When She Earns More than He Does is essential reading in the fields of family and gender studies, sociology, psychology, and East Asian studies.