Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317795193
• Artikelnr.: 40111304

Autorenporträt

Esther Ngan-ling Chow is Professor of Sociology at American University in Washington D.C. and has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Asian Studies, and is affiliated with the Women's and Gender Studies programs.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Part I: EnGendering East Asian Development
Chapter 1: Globalization
East Asian Development
and Gender: A Historical Overview
Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Chapter 2: Studying Gender and Development with Gender Perspectives: From Mainstream Theories to Alternative Frameworks
Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Deanna M. Lyter
Part II: The Process of Industrialization: Institutional Embeddedness
Control
and Resistance
Chapter 3: Women and Work in East Asia
Yin-wah Chu
Chapter 4: Gendered Organizations
Embodiment
and Employment among Manufacturing Workers in Taiwan
Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Ray-May Hsung
Chapter 5: Power
Media Representation
and Labor Dispute: The Case of Women Workers in South Korea
Hyun Mee Kim
Part III: The Impact of Economic Restructuring on Employment and Family
Chapter 6: Women's Unemployment
Re-employment and Self-employment in China's Economic Restructuring
Ting Gong
Chapter 7: State Women Workers in Chinese Economic Reform: The Transformation of Management Control and Firm Independence
Ping Ping
Chapter 8: Gender Embeddedness of Family Strategies: Hong Kong Working-class Families Under Economic Restructuring
Vivian Hiu-tung Leung
Part IV: Migration
Household
and Gender Strategies
Chapter 9: Guests From the Tropics: Labor Practices and Foreign Workers in Taiwan
Anru Lee
Chapter 10: Fleeing Poverty: Rural Women
Expanding Marriage Markets
and Strategies for Social Mobility in Contemporary China
Christina Gilmartin and Lin Tan
Chapter 11: Women's Work in International Migration
Janet W. Salaff
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index