ISBN:
9780415715898
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender and Family in East Asia
DDC:
306.85095
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed, modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women's education levels and participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet, despite the process of modernization, traditional systems such as Confucianism and patriarchal rules, continue to shape gender politics and family relationships in East Asia. This book examines gender politi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: gender and family in East Asia; Part I Marriage and motherhood; 1 Transforming the gendered organization of childcare: experiences of three generations of rural mothers in an inland Chinese village (1940s-2006); 2 Going back to traditional ethics? The importance of marriage for female college graduates in Japan from 1995 to 2010; 3 Behind the family's common interest: battles between Korean entrepreneur couples
Description / Table of Contents:
4 In the name of the father? The law and social norms of children's surnames in TaiwanPart II Migration; 5 The implication of labor migration for left-behind married Miao women in a poor village in Guizhou; 6 Making a productive home: how Chinese immigrant women "do family"; 7 Gender, family, and work: examining the transnational migration processes of Chinese immigrant women in Canada; 8 Transnational duties: marriage and family practices among Indian migrants in Hong Kong; Part III Religion and family
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Islamic menhuan system, patrilineal family, and gender relations of Dongxiang people in Gansu, China10 Theorizing women's agency: women's religious negotiation with marginal families in Chinese society; 11 Women, mourning, and the ritual for the death of family; Conclusion: marriages and families in Asia: something old and something new?; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
