Handbook on gender in Asia / edited by Shirlena Huang, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Huang, Shirlena, editor.

Ruwanpura, Kanchana N., editor.

Series:

International handbooks on gender.

International Handbooks on Gender

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Asia.

Sex role.

Sex (Psychology).

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

"Exploring gender as a fundamental factor in the way that lives of individuals, families and societies across Asia are organized, this timely Handbook studies the importance of modernization and globalization for understanding gender in Asia. It brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on five critical areas in the field: ageing and health; labour; migrations and mobilities; gender at the margins, and the theory and practice of researching in Asia. Using empirical case studies, contributors highlight the challenges and changes to cultured traditions and practices that surround gendered norms surrounding the societal roles of men and women in Asia. Identifying gaps in current research, and using both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the topic, this volume demonstrates the difference a gendered perspective makes in providing a better understanding of these issues in Asia. It offers fresh, nuanced insights to socio-political currents in Asian countries. This far-reaching collection will be an essential read for scholars in the social sciences interested in gender issues in Asia, Asian geography, human geography and gender politics; and for NGOs and policy makers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction

1. Introduction: Gender in Asia / Shirlena Huang and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

Section 1 - gender in Asia: Theory and practice

2. Patriarchal bargains and a triple bind: On writing geographies of gender in India / Anindita Datta

3. 'You are (Hong Kong) Chinese! You should understand our culture!' reflections of a Chinese male ethnographer on researching Nepali drug users in Hong Kong / Wai-man Tang

4. 'The only blond girl in manila': Challenges and opportunities as a white western young woman postgraduate researching in Asia / Maddy Thompson

Section 2 - gender, ageing and health

5. Old-age well-being in developing southeast Asia: Gendered perspectives of Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand / Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan and John Knodel

6. Gender, ageing, and health in China / Yi Yang

7. Eldercare, gender relations and migrant labour in Japan: Approaching the interplay of informal and formal care / Ruri Ito and Mie Morikawa

8. Parent care in transnational families: Experiences of Taiwanese-Chinese families in Australia and New Zealand / Lan-hung Nora Chiang and Elsie Seckyee Ho

9. Rural thai women's life transformations through partnering western men: Gendered exchanges, differential ageing, and rights / Paul Statham

Section 3 - gender and labour

10. Labour informality, patriarchal gender regimes and neoliberalism in Turkey / Ayşe Arslan

11. Gendering work and labor in the agriculture sector: A focus on south Asia / Cynthia M. Caron

12. Vulnerability and resilience on the streets: Interrogating intersectionality amongst southeast Asia's street vendors / Sarah Turner, Ammar Adenwala and Celia Zuberec

13. Modestly modern: Mapping the Pakistani muslim working woman / Sara Shroff

14. Gender and domestic work in India / Lauren Wilks

Section 3 - gendered migrations and mobilities

15. Gendered highly skilled migration in the knowledge sector / Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi

16. Beyond the 'age' lens: Older migrants' negotiation of intersectional identities over the lifecourse / Menusha De Silva

17. From factory worker to foreign wife: Reading migration and development through a gender perspective / Hyunok Lee

18. Gendered lifestyle migration in Asia: Japanese transnational families in Malaysia / Hiroki Igarashi

19. Gender and transnational parenting: Extended moral communities of co-responsibility among (im)migrant kodavathees / Bittiandra Chand Somaiah

20. Emotion, gender and migration in Asia / Sallie Yea

Section 5 - gender at the margins

21. Migrant workers and childcare at the place of destination: An overview of issues in the mekong region, south east Asia / Kyoko Kusakabe

22. Gender and forced migration: Kachin internally displaced people at the China-Myanmar border / Elaine Ho

23. Exploring the continuum: Violence against women and security in nepal's transition to peace / Smita Ramnarain

24. Silence and invisibility: The gender dimensions of women's activism in higher education in Asia / Asha L. Abeyasekera

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78811-291-1