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Gender and Family in East Asia book cover

1st Edition

Gender and Family in East Asia

Edited By Siumi Maria Tam, Wai Ching Angela Wong, Danning Wang Copyright 2014
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

Introduction: Gender and Family in East Asia, Angela Wai Ching WONG, Maria Siumi TAM, and Danning WANG  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), Yuqin HUANG 2. Going Back to Traditional Ethics? The Importance of Marriage for Female College Graduates in Japan from 1995 to 2010, Kiyoko YAMAGUCHI 3. Behind The Family's Common Interest: Battles Between Korean Entrepreneur Couples, Seyoung KANG 4. In the Name of the Father? The Law and Social Norms of Children's Surnames in Taiwan, Yun Hsien Diana LIN  Part II: Migration 5. The Implication of Labor Migration for Left-behind Married Miao Women in a Poor Village in Guizhou, Pui Yim Ada LAI 6. Making A Productive Home: How Chinese Immigrant Women "Do Family", Wai Ling WONG 7. Gender, Family, and Work: Examining the Transnational Migration Processes of Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada, Guida MAN 8.T ransnational Duties: Marriage and Family Practices among Indian Migrants in Hong Kong, Maria Siumi TAM  Part III: Religion and Family 9. Islamic Menhuan System, Patrilineal Family, and Gender Relations of Dongxiang People in Gansu, China, Ke MAN 10. Theorizing Women’s Agency: Women’s Religious Negotiation with Marginal Families in Chinese Society, Wai Ching Angela WONG 11. Women, Mourning, and the Ritual for the Death of Family, Seongnae KIM 11. Conclusion: Marriages and Families in Asia: Something Old and Something New?, Laurel KENDALL

Biography

Siumi Maria Tam is Associate Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology, and co-chairs the Gender Studies Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Wai Cing Angela Wong is Associate Professor the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Director of MA Programme in Intercultural Studies and Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Danning Wang is Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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