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Transforming gender and development in East Asia / edited by Esther Ngan-ling Chow.
Van Pelt Library HQ1240.5.E18 T73 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in development--East Asia.
- Women in development.
- Sex role--Economic aspects--East Asia.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--Economic aspects.
- East Asia--Economic conditions.
- East Asia.
- Economic conditions.
- East Asia--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Local Subjects:
- East Asia--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 268 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Contents:
- Part I. EnGendering East Asian Development
- Chapter 1 Globalization, East Asian Development, and Gender: A Historical Overview / Esther Ngan-ling Chow 9
- Chapter 2 Studying Development with Gender Perspectives: From Mainstream Theories to Alternative Frameworks / Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Deanna M. Lyter 25
- Part II. The Process of Industrialization: Institutional Embeddedness, Control, and Resistance
- Chapter 3 Women and Work in East Asia / Yin-wah Chu 61
- Chapter 4 Gendered Organizations, Embodiment, and Employment among Manufacturing Workers in Taiwan / Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Ray-may Hsung 81
- Chapter 5 Power, Media Representation, and Labor Dispute: The Case of Women Workers in South Korea / Hyun Mee Kim 105
- 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 125
- Chapter 7 State Women Workers in Chinese Economic Reform: The Transformation of Management Control and Firm Dependence / Ping Ping 141
- Chapter 8 Gender Embeddedness of Family Strategies: Hong Kong Working-Class Families during Economic Restructuring / Vivien Hiu-tung Leung 165
- Part IV. Migration, Household, and Gender Strategies
- Chapter 9 Guests from the Tropics: Labor Practices and Foreign Workers in Taiwan / Anru Lee 183
- Chapter 10 Fleeing Poverty: Rural Women, Expanding Marriage Markets, and Strategies for Social Mobility in Contemporary China / Christina Gilmartin, Lin Tan 203
- Chapter 11 Women's Work in International Migration / Janet W. Salaff 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 041592491X
- 0415924928
- OCLC:
- 48473810
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