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

Standardized Title:

Ajia josei to shinmitsusei no rōdō. English.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Asian women are often labelled with biased stereotypical images, ranging from “subordinate housewife” to “migrant domestic maid,” and “overseas bride.” Asian women, in fact, are being constructed as “women among women.” These feminine roles are related to the various activities that women perform for others in intimate relationships both within and outside the family. 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 domestic and sex workers as well as wives.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Ochiai Emiko and Aoyama Kaoru

Introduction: Intimate Work and the Construction of Asian Women / OCHIAI Emiko

Housewives’ Work / Mothers’ Work: The Changing Position of Housework in Dutch Society / NAKATANI Ayami

The “Housewife” and Housework in the Indian Urban Middle Classes / OSHIKAWA Fumiko

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” / SUH Ji Young

Selling Modernity: Housewives as Portrayed in Yuefenpai (Calendar Posters) and Magazine Advertisements in Shanghai of the 1920's and 1930's / WU Yongmei

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

“To be Good at Public and Domestic Work, I Need Three Heads and Six Hands”: The Dilemma of Vietnamese “Modern” Women / KHUAT Thu Hong , BUI Thu Huong and LE Bach Duong

From Farmers’ Daughters to Foreign Wives: Marriage, Migration and Gender in the Sending Communities of Vietnam / Danièle BÉLANGER , TRAN Giang Linh , LE Bach Duong and KHUAT Thu Hong

Commercially Arranged Marriage Migration: The Agency and Inner Struggle of Chinese Women / HAO Hongfang

Strategies of Resistance among Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore / UENO Kayako

Moving from Modernisation to Globalisation: Migrant Sex Workers in Japan / AOYAMA Kaoru

The Role of Multicultural Families in South Korean Immigration Policy / LEE Hye-kyung

Index / Ochiai Emiko and Aoyama Kaoru.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-25808-6

OCLC:

861559345