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Women, work and care in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Marian Baird, Michele Ford and Elizabeth Hill.
Van Pelt Library HQ1760.5 .W66 2017
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ASAA women in Asia series ; 50.
- ASAA women in Asia series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--East Asia--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Pacific Area--Social conditions.
- Older people--Home care--East Asia.
- Older people.
- Older people--Home care--Pacific Area.
- Caregivers--East Asia.
- Caregivers.
- Caregivers--Pacific Area.
- Women employees--East Asia.
- Women employees.
- Women employees--Pacific Area.
- Older people--Home care.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- East Asia.
- Pacific Area.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1 Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2017.
- Contents:
- Work/care regimes in the asia-pacific : a feminist framework
- Familial/informal care regimes
- China : the reconfiguring of women, work and care
- Malaysia : balancing paid and unpaid work
- Singapore : contradictions in the work/care regime
- Indonesia : middle-class complicity and state failure to provide care
- The Philippines : pressures for change in the work/care regime
- Cambodia : managing work and care in a post-conflict context
- Bangladesh : class, precarity and the politics of care
- India : economic inequality and social reproduction
- Sri Lanka : working realities and gendered fictions
- Familial/formal care regimes
- Australia : the care challenge
- New Zealand : caring for women or women caring?
- Predominantly familial care regimes
- Japan : from social reproduction to gender equality
- South Korea : work, care and the wollstonecraft dilemma
- Timor-Leste : mixed messages on work and care
- Papua New Guinea : work and care in a subsistence economy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781138119048
- 1138119040
- OCLC:
- 962140702
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