Routledge handbook of East Asian gender studies / edited by Jieyu Liu and Junko Yamashita.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liu, Jieyu, 1978- editor.

Yamashita, Junko, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks.

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--East Asia.

Feminism.

Gender identity--East Asia.

Gender identity.

Sex role--East Asia.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the field, this handbook includes examples from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and covers the following themes: theorising gender relations; women's and feminist movements; work, care and migration; family and intergenerational relationships; cultural representation; masculinity; and state, militarism and gender. Thishandbook is essential reading for scholars and students of Gender and Women's Studies, as well as East Asian societies, social policy and culture.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction

SECTION I: Theorising gender relations in East Asia

1 The logics of gender construction in Asian modernities

2 Gender and heterosexuality in East Asia: western concepts and Asian lives

SECTION II: Variety in women's and feminist movements in East Asia

3 South Korean women's movement: between modernisation and globalisation

4 Feminisms in Japan since the second wave to the present: its history and achievement

5 Feminist activism in Hong Kong

6 Feminism in the twentieth-century China: modernity, gender and state

SECTION III: Gendered work, care and migration

7 Making migrant care workers in East Asia

8 The social organisation of sex work in Taiwan

9 Women and migration in China

10 Formal-care work under the Japanese quasi-market: towards a care-friendly gender regime

11 Gendered politics of work-life balance in South Korea

SECTION IV: Traditions and transition of family and intergenerational relationships

12 Family life in China

13 Family and gender in Taiwan

14 Family transitions and family policy in South Korea

15 Lone mother households and poverty in Japan: new social risks, the social security system and labour market

SECTION V: Politics of gendered cultural representation

16 Gender, representation and identity: the multifold politics of Japanese woman imagery

17 Performing gender in Chinese cinema

18 Centre stage: gender representations in Taiwan cinema

19 Sexualising cinematic border: gender, spectatorship and citizenship in Hong Kong-Mainland cinema

SECTION VI: Shifting yet surviving ideals and practice of masculinity.

20 Counting on women while not counting women's personhood: a critical analysis of the masculine ideal of self-made man in Japan

21 Masculinities in China

22 Masculinities in Korea: how male portrayals are changed in Korean news magazines' advertisements from the 1970s to the 1990s

SECTION VII: State, militarism and gender

23 Beyond the boundaries of nationalism, Christianity and feminism: South Korean women's movement against U.S. military prostitution

24 From recognition of vulnerabilities to caring democracy: a care analysis of the reconciliation process of the "comfort women" issue in Japan

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-33733-6

1-317-33734-4

1-315-66052-0

9781315660523

OCLC:

1121420410