Asian women and intimate work / edited by Ochiai Emiko, Aoyama Kaoru.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ochiai, Emiko, 1958-

Aoyama, Kaoru, 1962-

Series:

Intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives ; v. 3.

The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives, 2213-0608 ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Asia.

Sex role.

Women household employees--Asia.

Women household employees.

Women foreign workers--Asia.

Women foreign workers.

Prostitutes--Asia.

Prostitutes.

Women--Asia--Economic conditions.

Women.

Women--Asia--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

Asia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award This book comprises contributions from a distinguished group of international researchers who examine the historical development of "new women" and "good wife, wise mother," women's roles in socialist and transitional modernity and the transnational migration of both domestic and sex workers as well as wives.

Contents:

Part 1 Imagining Intimate Work

1 Housewives' Work / Mothers' Work: The Changing Position of Housework in Dutch Society / Nakatani Ayami Ayami, Nakatani 37

2 The "Housewife" and Housework in the Indian Urban Middle Classes / Oshikawa Furncko Furncko, Oshikawa 63

Part 2 Multiple Faces of the Good Wife/Wise Mother

3 Troubles of the "New Women" in the Emergence of Modern Korea: Focusing on the Interrelationship between "Women's Liberation" and the Image of "Wise Mother and Good Wife" / Suhji Young Young, Suhji 93

4 Selling Modernity: Housewives as Portrayed in Yuefenpai (Calendar Posters) and Magazine Advertisements in Shanghai of the 1920s and 1930s / Wu Yongmei Yongmei, Wu 107

5 The Gender Norms of Chinese Women in the Transitional Market Economy: Research Interviews with Wives in Three Urban Centers / Zheng Yang Yang, Zheng 1

6 "To be Good at Public and Domestic Work, I Need Three Heads and Six Hands": The Dilemma of Vietnamese "Modern" Women / Khuat Thu Hong Hong, Khuat Thu, Bui Thu Huong Huong, Bui Thu, Le Back Duong Duong, Le Back 167

Part 3 Wives and Workers Crossing Borders

7 From Farmers' Daughters to Foreign Wives: Marriage, Migration and Gender in the Sending Communities of Vietnam / Danièle Bélanger Bélanger, Danièle, Tran Giang Link Link, Tran Giang, Le Back Duong Duong, Le Back, Khuat Thu Hong Hong, Khuat Thu 191

8 Commercially Arranged Marriage Migration: The Agency and Inner Struggle of Chinese Women / Hao Hongfang Hongfang, Hao 217

9 Strategies of Resistance among Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore / Ueno Kayako Kayako, Ueno 239

10 Moving from Modernisation to Globalisation: Migrant Sex Workers in Japan / Aoyama Kaoru Kaoru, Aoyama 263

11 The Role of Multicultural Families in South Korean Immigration Policy / Lee Hye-kyung Hye-kyung, Lee 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Asian women and intimate work.

ISBN:

9789004258082

OCLC:

861559345

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.