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Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.

Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres

This volume examines 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.

Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities

Includes papers presented at the conference "Gender and Social Transformation: Global, Transnational, and Local Realities and Perspectives", Beijing, China in 2009. This title addresses topics such as: divisions of labor, migration, war and peace-building.

Women, the Family, and Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Women, the Family, and Policy

The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of women's experiences reveal the variety of ways in which private patriarchy in families combines with public patriarchy in economies and states to create a system of domination which subordinates women. The authors detail how gender is constructed under specific political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and seek to understand how state policies with differing sensitivities to women's issues have produced mixed outcomes for women and their families in the process of economic development.

Asian American Women and Gender
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Asian American Women and Gender

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.

Race, Gender, and Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

Race, Gender, and Work

An outgrowth of Boston's Economic Literacy Project of Women for Economic Justice, this new edition traces the economic and social histories of working women in America. The history documents the paid and unpaid work done by American Indian, Chicana, European American, African American, and Puerto Rican women from each group's cultural beginnings (pre-colonialization) to the most contemporary analysis of present day wage statistics. The appendices supply US census sources, occupational categories, and labor force participation rates from 1900 to 1980. Includes statistical tables. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Women, the Family, and Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Women, the Family, and Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of women's experiences reveal the variety of ways in which private patriarchy in families combines with public patriarchy in economies and states to create a system of domination which subordinates women. The authors detail how gender is constructed under specific political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and seek to understand how state policies with differing sensitivities to women's issues have produced mixed outcomes for women and their families in the process of economic development.

Race, Class, & Gender
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Race, Class, & Gender

Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.

Asian/Pacific Islander American Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Asian/Pacific Islander American Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-08
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

A groundbreaking anthology devoted to Asian/Pacific Islander American women and their experiences Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Covering a broad terrain from pre-large scale Asian emigration and Hawaii in its pre-Western contact period to the continental United States, the Philippines, and Guam at the end of the twentieth century, the text views women as historical subjects actively negotiating complex hierarchies of power. The volume presents new findings about a range of groups, including recent immigrants to the U.S. and understudied communities. Comprised of original new work, ...