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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
Contributor:
Chow, Esther Ngan-ling, 1943-
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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