Social production and reproduction at the interface of public and private spheres / edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Vasilikie Demos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-

Chow, Esther Ngan-ling, 1943-

Demos, Vasilikie P.

Series:

Advances in gender research ; v. 16.

Advances in gender research, 1529-2126 ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Gender identity.

Social structure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume focuses on the gendered interfaces of the public and private spheres of life. In the 21st century these are no longer separate as women and men move from one to the other in the course of their daily lives and their life spans. The chapters examine the ways individuals, families and societies strive to balance paid and unpaid labor, engage in parenting and accomplish other care-work, seek education for themselves and their children, and respond to the mass media, sometimes under conditions of poverty or violence and often across international boundaries. These are the ways social life is produced and reproduced, protested and commodified by women and men and the social systems and constraints within which they act and interact. Questions addressed by the authors are framed in terms of current gender theory and the impact of social structures. The resiliency and agency of women are demonstrated by a group of international scholars through the comparison and analysis of empirical data from several countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Taiwan, Indonesia, Iran, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and the People's Republic of China.

Contents:

Introducing social production and reproduction at the interface of public and private spheres / Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, Esther Ngan-ling Chow

Gendered desire and heteronormativity in the transnational matchmaking process / Minjeong Kim

Transnationalism, motherhood, and entrepreneurship : Chinese women in Spain / Amelia Sáiz López

Living culture and making relationships : mothers and daughters negotiate sexuality in Indonesia and Canada / Marilyn Porter, Kristi Poerwandari

Single mothering in poverty : black feminist considerations / Bette J. Dickerson, Wanda Parham-Payne, Tekisha Dwan Everette

Neoliberalism and the feminization of family survival : the happiness project in four Chinese villages / Lihua Wang

Work-to-family conflict and women's construction of work/family roles in post-Mao China / Jiping Zuo, Yongping Jiang

Doing it all : the effects of gender, rank, and department climate on work-family conflict for faculty at liberal arts colleges / Catherine White Berheide, Cay Anderson-Hanley

Empirical study of gender occupational segregation of rural-urban migrant workers in China / Zhen Wang

Gender discourse in the cultural context of globalization : transmission, conflict, and discourse competition / Di Yang, Yihong Jin

Learning and identity : life, work and citizenship / Adrienne S. Chan, Barbara Merrill

Beyond the state : legitimatizing gender equity in education in Taiwan / Shu-Ching Lee

Globalization, activism, and local contexts : development of policy on domestic violence in China and England / Marianne Hester.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786613861122

9781283548670

1283548674

9781780528755

1780528752

OCLC:

807573161