Asia's New Mothers

Crafting Gender Roles and Childcare Networks in East and Southeast Asian Societies
Herausgeber: Ochiai, Emiko; Molony, Barbara

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a focus on childcare, this offers a comparative regional analysis unique in English-language sources of changing gender roles in Asia. Taking into consideration the historical and cultural differences and similarities among the societies in the region, the authors employ indepth researches of people's everyday experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781905246373
• ISBN-10: 1905246374
• Artikelnr.: 22800280

Autorenporträt

Ochiai Emiko is professor of sociology at Kyoto University, working in the field of family sociology, gender studies, and historical demography. Her publications include The Japanese Family System in Transition (LTCB International Library Foundation, 1997), Modern Family and Feminism (Keiso Shobo, 1989), and The Family and Gender in Asia (co-editor: Keiso Shobo, 2007). Barbara Molony, a professor of Japanese history at Santa Clara University, is the co-editor of Gendering Modern Japanese History (Harvard 2005) and author of articles on women's political rights, gender and employment, and the politics of maternalism. She is currently working on the intersection of gender, dress and nationalism in modern Japanese history.