Asian Women and Intimate Work
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Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 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 both domestic and sex workers as well as wives.

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Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 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 both domestic and sex workers as well as wives.
Autorenporträt
Ochiai Emiko is a professor of sociology at Kyoto University, working in the field of family sociology, gender studies and historical demography. She is the Program Leader of Global COE for Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in 21st Century Asia and the Director of Kyoto University's Asian Research Center for the Intimate and Public Spheres. Her publications include The Japanese Family System in Transition (LTCB International Library Foundation, 1997), Asia's New Mothers: Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies (co-edited with Barbara Molony, Global Oriental 2008), The Stem Family in Eurasian Perspective: Revisiting House Societies, 17th-20th Centuries, (co-edited with Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Peter Lang, 2009). Aoyama Kaoru, Ph.D. (2005, University of Essex), is a sociologist and associate professor at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University. Her current focus is on migrant sexworkers, trafficking issues and transformation of the intimate sphere. Her publications include Thai Migrant Sexworkers: From Modernisation to Globalisation (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009).