Old challenges, new strategies : women, work, and family in contemporary Asia / edited by Leng Leng Thang & Wei-Hsin Yu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thang, Leng Leng, 1965-

Yu, Wei-Hsin

Series:

Social sciences in Asia 1567-2794 ; v. 1.

Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Asia.

Women.

Women--Employment.

Work and family.

Asia.

Work and family--Asia.

Physical Description:

xvi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Summary:

This volume joins the ongoing discourse on gender relations in contemporary Asia with its fascinating case studies from multidisplinary perspectives. It compares women's roles, constraints, and coping strategies across a wide range of societies in East and Southeast Asia

Contents:

1. Introduction: Assessing Women's Roles in Asian Economies / Wei-hsin Yu, Leng Leng Thang 1

Part I Negotiating Dual Roles

2. Gender, Family, and Forms of Labour Force Participation: Women and Non-standard Employment in Japan and Taiwan / Wei-hsin Yu 29

3. Married Women's Employment and Housework in South Korea / Sunhwa Lee 61

4. The Other Chief Executive Officer: Homemaking as a Sequencing Strategy and Career Project among Married Chinese Women in Singapore / Lai Ah Eng, Shirlena Huang 87

Part II Constraints in the Workplace

5. Clerical Work and Women's Employment in Japan: Female Occupation Theory Revisited / Shuichi Hirata 119

6. Changing Work Identities for Professional Women in Hong Kong / Ann Brooks 145

7. When Women Go Fishing: Women's Work in Vietnamese Fishing Communities / Pham Van Bich 163

Part III State and Gendered Policies

8. Pink-collared Workers and the Family in Modernizing Malaysia: A Case Study of the Garment Industry / Vicki Crinis 187

9. Social and Economic Development among Rural Women in Northern Thailand / Angeline Ames, Todd Ames 209

10. Women in Split Families: The Case of Mainland Chinese Wives and their Hong Kong Husbands / Vivian W.Q. Lou, Looi Looi Low 233

Part IV Globalization, Migration, and the Impacts on Women

11. Cooperation and Competition across Border Markets: Changes in the Definition of Women's Weaving Activities in Lao-Thai Borderlands / Kyoko Kusakabe 251

12. Gendered Work, Migration, and Social Networks in Two Villages in West Java / Rachel Silvey 277

13. Challenging the Life Course: Japanese Single Working Women in Singapore / Leng Leng Thang, Miho Goda, Elizabeth MacLachlan 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004137327

OCLC:

54035069